Research Interest

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Mobile Computing

Biography

Professor Xiong Hui holds esteemed positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as a Chair Professor and the Associate Vice President for Knowledge Transfer. Before joining HKUST(GZ), he was a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University and held the position of Chief Scientist (Smart City) and Deputy Dean at Baidu Research Institute (T11), overseeing five research labs. Prof. Xiong has received numerous honors and awards, including being elected as Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Fellow of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) and China Computer Federation (CCF). Prof. Xiong is the principal investigator of the National Key R&D Program of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has received prestigious awards such as the ACM SIGKDD Service Award and the AAAI Best Paper Award. He is also recognized for his talent cultivation, as many of his PhD students have become tenure-track professors worldwide.