Keynote 4 Speaker：

Yike Guo

Provost-designate,

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Biography:

     Prof Yike Guo is a world leading computer scientist. Prof. Guo is currently Vice-President (Research and Development) at Hong Kong Baptist University. He led the transformation of the research culture and reorganization of the research management structure in alignment with the University’s key objectives, and successfully built a multidisciplinary research environment, integrating research in science, medicine, and humanity with the establishment of six institutional multidisciplinary laboratories to form a matrix-based research framework.

     Before coming to Hong Kong, he spent 33 years at the Imperial College London, where he was the Founding Director of the Data Science Institute since 2014. His research area focuses on 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 security applications. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018. He was also a Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2021.

     He has recently been appointed as the Provost of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), with effect from December 1st, 2022.