Professor Yike GUO, BSc, PhD

Professor Yike Guo assumed office as the Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) on December 1, 2022. He is concurrently a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering as well as the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. Since 2024, he also serves as the Director of Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center (HKGAI) which is one of the research centers under the InnoHK program, a key initiative of the Hong Kong SAR Government. 

Professor Guo received his first-class honours degree in Computing Science from Tsinghua University in 1985 and obtained his PhD degree from Imperial College London in 1994. He has been a full Professor in Department of Computing of Imperial College London since 2002. He was the Founding Director of the Data Science Institute at Imperial College London since 2014. In 2015 – 2020, Professor Guo was appointed as Non-Executive Dean of the School of Computer Engineering and Science in Shanghai University, and he is now the Honorary Dean of the School.

Prior to joining HKUST, Professor Guo was the Vice President (Research and Development) and the Dean of Graduate School at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) since 2020. He led the transformation of the research culture and reorganization of the research management structure with a multidisciplinary research environment. He has successfully built six institutional multidisciplinary laboratories to form a matrix-based research framework in the university. Under his leadership, HKBU has advanced its research capacity with a record high research grant and knowledge transfer incomes.

Professor Guo is a world leading computer scientist with research focuses on machine learning and data mining for large-scale scientific applications including distributed data mining methods, machine learning and informatics systems for biology, chemistry, geophysics, healthcare, environment, economy, finance, social media, creative design and art applications.

He is Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (FHKEng), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS), and Fellow of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (FCAAI).

Professor Guo has extensive experience in working with industries. He has led the development of start-up companies and worked with leading international companies such as GSK, Pfizer, Roche, KPMG, Huawei and BBC et al in large research projects and consulting services.

Professor Guo has served on the editorial board of many first-tier journals. He is the editor-in-chief of Annual Reviews of Data Sciences (World Scientific), and the deputy editor-in-chief of CAAI Transections on Intelligent Systems (the official journal of CAAI), Machine Intelligence Research (Springer).

Professor Guo was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award of the 2022 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Award, which is considered to be the highest award for Chinese AI science and technology. He was also named "Leader of the Year 2024" in the Education/Professional/Technology and Innovation category from Sing Tao News Corporation for his transformative contributions to education and technological innovation in Hong Kong. In November 2025, Professor Guo was elected as an International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in recognition of his exceptional contributions to the Information and Electronics Engineering Division. The CAE is the nation's highest academic institution in engineering sciences and technology, and membership is considered as the highest lifelong academic honor in the field.

Professor Guo is dedicated to contributing to the advancement of the University with his international vision, creative mind, and entrepreneurial spirit. He is playing a key role in leading the university to achieve its strategic goals through talent development, cross-sector collaboration, interdisciplinary research and education. He also works closely with different stakeholders to take HKUST to its next level of excellence.