Gu’s research interests focus on large scaling optimization in machine learning, spiking neural networks, and data mining. Email
Prior to joining MBZUAI, Gu was a full professor of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in China. He was a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Western Ontario from 2013 to 2015, with the University of Texas at Arlington from 2016 to 2017, and the University of Pittsburgh from 2017 to 2018.
Gu served as a program committee member or reviewer for several leading machine learning and data mining conferences and journals such as NIPS, ICML, KDD, AAAI, TPAMI, JMLR, and a senior program committee member of IJCAI 2019 to 2021.
Gu has published 70 or more papers, with more than 3000 citations.