Guo Yike

Guo Yike
郭毅可
Provost of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Assumed office
1 December 2022
PresidentNancy Ip
ChancellorJohn Lee Ka-chiu
Preceded byLionel Ni
Personal details
Born1962 (age 6263)
Shanghai, China
Education
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science and Engineering
Institutions
Thesis Definitional constraint programming  (1994)
Doctoral advisorJohn Darlington

Guo Yike (Chinese: 郭毅可; pinyin: Guō Yìkě) is a Chinese computer scientist who currently serves as provost of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) since 1 December 2022. He is concurrently a chair professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of HKUST.

Prior to joining HKUST he has been a full professor in the Department of Computing of Imperial College London (Imperial College). During his time there, he founded the Data Science Institute in April 2014.

Guo also serves as vice president of research and development and dean of graduate school at Hong Kong Baptist University since 2020.

Guo focuses on the fields of data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).