Ruibang Luo

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Assistant Director (Learning Experience & Student Enrichment)

Program Director (BEng AI & Data Science)

School of Computing and Data Science
The University of Hong Kong

Office:: Rm 422, Chow Yei Ching Building, HKU
Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Email:: rbluo [at] cs [dot] hku [dot] hk

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About

Dr. Ruibang Luo is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Hong Kong. He completed his Ph.D. training in Bioinformatics with Dr. Tak-Wah Lam at the University of Hong Kong (2010-2015), and his postdoctoral training with Drs. Steven Salzberg and Michael Schatz at the Center of Computational Biology, Johns Hopkins University (2016-2017).

Luo is a researcher working on bioinformatics algorithms and clinical informatics. He published more than 80 papers, with ten achieving over a thousand citations. He has been identified as Top 1% Scholars Worldwide by Clarivate Analytics since 2019, selected by Baidu Research as Worldwide Top 150 Chinese Young Scholars in AI, named Top 10 Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific by MIT Technology Review in 2019, and recognized as 30 Under 30 Asia in Healthcare and Science by Forbes in 2017.

🔍 Recruitment: We are looking for dedicated and self-motivated students and postdocs with passion in bioinformatics. If you enjoy deciphering biological and medical big data by writing up your own code to target for the best speed, sensitivity and accuracy, you might be interested in working with me. Please contact me through email with your CV.

🌍 Visiting Scholars: We invite scholars at any career stage for short-term or long-term collaborative visits at HKU. We offer an engaging research environment, access to advanced facilities and technologies, and numerous professional development opportunities.

News & Highlights

Recent achievements and updates

2025

General Chair, GIW/ISCB-Asia 2025

Leading the organization of the international conference on genome informatics.
Conference Website

2024

Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA)

Recognized for exceptional research contributions at HKU.
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2022/23

Faculty's Best Teacher Award

HKU Engineering and Computer Science Departments.
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2022

Top 150 Chinese Young Scholars in AI

Baidu Research - Artificial Intelligence category.
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2020-2025

World's Top 2% Scientists

Stanford University - Global ranking.
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2019

Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific

MIT Technology Review - Bioinformatics breakthroughs.
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2019-2025

Top 1% Scholars Worldwide

Clarivate Analytics - Annual recognition.
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2017

Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia

Healthcare & Science category.
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