Academic Staff

Prof. Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics. He received his Ph.D., M.Phil., and B.Eng. degrees from PolyU, Waseda University, and Sichuan University, respectively, all in computer science and AI. From 2021 to 2022, he did postdoctoral training at the University of Sydney, where he was also a visiting/exchange Ph.D. from 2019 to 2020. He is generally interested in efficient- and edge-native AI, targeting learning/modelling with limited resources in terms of data, computing capability, as well as their applications across a wide spectrum. Some specific topics include zero/few-shot learning, collaborative learning, representation learning, model compression, and lightweight solutions for large foundation models/world models. He is currently serving as Executive Editor-in-Chief for Edge Intelligence and Systems (EIS), serving as Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), serving as Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition (PR) and IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society (OJ-CS), and serving as Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS) and Complex & Intelligent Systems. He regularly serves as an Area Chair and/or Senior PC for prestigious venues such as ICML, ICLR, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM-MM, and NeurIPS. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

• Bachelor of Engineering, Sichuan University
• Master of Engineering, Waseda University
• Doctor of Philosophy, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University