Yuanxiong (Richard) Guo, Ph.D.
Cloud Technology Endowed Fellowship

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Yuanxiong (Richard) Guo, Ph.D.

Cloud Technology Endowed Fellowship

Associate Professor, Information Systems and Cyber Security

Yuanxiong (Richard) Guo joined UTSA faculty in 2019. He is an associate professor in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business, and a core faculty member of the newly established UTSA School of Data Science. His research interests include machine learning, data science, trustworthy artificial intelligence, and their applications to various domains such as human-robot collaboration, energy sustainability, and healthcare.

Guo has made significant scholarly contributions to his field. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers in high-quality journals and conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), and International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). His research has attracted over 3000 citations so far, and was notably recognized with the Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM in 2014.

Guo is a senior member of IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and currently serves as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He was also a guest editor of IEEE Access. He has taken leadership roles in several international conferences, including track chair for the 19th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST2022) and the IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall). He has also served as a technical program committee member for more than 20 international conferences and reviewer for more than 25 esteemed journals. 

Guo’s research has been supported with funding from organizations like the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He also received the Visiting Faculty Research Program Award from AFRL. Guo earned his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2014.