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 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, overseeing five research labs. Prof. Xiong has received numerous honors and awards, including being elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Distinguished Scientist of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Fellow of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI). He is also recognized for his talent cultivation as many of his PhD students have become tenure-track professors worldwide.