Hui XIONG

The University of Minnesota

Areas of Expertise：

Artificial Intelligence

Details：

Teaching Experience:

Professor Hui Xiong holds esteemed positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) as Associate Vice President for Knowledge Transfer, as well as Chair Professor and Founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Thrust. Since 2021, as a founding faculty member of the HKUST(GZ), he has led the complete establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Thrust from the ground up and participated in the university’s interdisciplinary layout and the construction of the “HKUST 2.0” innovation ecosystem. Before joining HKUST(GZ), he held a long-term appointment in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, where he was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor. From 2017 to 2020, he held the position of Chief Scientist (Smart City) and Deputy Dean at Baidu Research Institute, overseeing five research labs.

Research Interests and Key Achievements:

Professor Hui Xiong’s research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Multimodal large models, mobile computing, and smart cities. The Informer algorithm, which he led and proposed, has been widely applied and cited in long-sequence time-series forecasting tasks and have become one of the most influential representative works in the field.

Professor Xiong has received numerous top international academic honors, including being elected as 2025 Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 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). His major honors in China include Chang Jiang Chair Professor (Ministry of Education of China), the Overseas Outstanding Young Scholar (Class B, NSFC), and Principal Investigator of a Key Project under the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (2023).

Professor Xiong has received multiple top international awards, including the 2018 Ram Charan Management Practice Award – Grand Prize from Harvard Business Review, the 2023 ACM SIGKDD Service Award, the 2021 AAAI Best Paper Award, the 2017 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award, and the 2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award.