Dr. Chu received his B.Eng. degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003. He is currently a Professor at the Data Science and Analytics Thrust and Artificial Intelligence Thrust, Information Hub of HKUST(GZ), and an Affiliate Professor of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is the Acting Head of the Artificial Intelligence Thrust, and has been the Acting Head and Head of the Data Science and Analytics Thrust during 2023-25. He has been working at the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University during 2003-2021. He was a vice-chairman of the Blockchain Technical Committee of China Institute of Communications. His current research interests include Machine Learning Systems, GPU Computing, Embodied AI, and AI4Science. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of AAIA.