Assistant Professor
The University of Hong Kong
Department of Architecture.
Principal investigator
Hongshan Guo
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
Human-building-climate systems, simulation, climate futures, and design-facing AI.
Appointments
Academic and professional trajectory
Principal Data Scientist
Bank of New York Mellon
Led end-to-end ML deployment and model governance for daily USD 29-43 billion Federal Reserve account-balance forecasting.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Princeton University
Research at the intersection of building science, sensing, and environmental modeling.
Education
Training and disciplinary base
Ph.D., Architecture
Princeton University
Architectural Technology and Computational Design.
M.Eng., Mechanical Engineering
Columbia University
B.Eng., Architectural Engineering
Harbin Institute of Technology
HVAC Engineering.
Teaching
Courses and pedagogy
ARCH7476: Evidence-Based Generative Design
Students frame design problems as testable claims, collect evidence, and build reproducible analyses with strong visual communication artifacts.
Mixed MArch, undergraduate, and PhD
Course siteDESN2003: Research for Innovation
Research methodology from question framing through evidence gathering to communication, with tracks for frontier research and buildable outputs.
Undergraduate
Course siteCCGL9065: Our Response to Climate Change | Hong Kong 2100
Climate action through critique, debate, and speculative design, culminating in a public interactive art-and-science exhibition.
Undergraduate
Course siteEvidence-based design workflows that combine low-code tools with Python and Colab notebooks, with strong emphasis on reproducibility, uncertainty quantification, and visual communication.
Princeton mini-courses on IoT sensing and thermodynamics labs, 2015-2018.
Mentorship and service
Doctoral work, reviewing, and public-facing scholarship
Current supervision
- Kanxuan He, PhD (HKU, 2025-): probabilistic control; first place at the ICML 2025 CO-BUILD Smart Building Competition.
- Yu Chang, PhD (HKU, 2024-): cross-cultural thermal comfort; first-author review in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (2025).
- Multi-agentic, physics-informed occupant modeling for environmental evaluation in architectural design.
- Neuroarchitecture thesis using EEG to study occupant responses to spatial design conditions.
Professional service
- ASHRAE Research Project 1959-TRP on metabolic rate standards revision, PI, awarded February 2026.
- Reviewer for CVPR, ICML and NeurIPS workshops, and journals including Energy and Buildings, Building and Environment, Applied Energy, Energy, Journal of Building Engineering, Sustainable Cities and Society, and Urban Climate.
- Co-Chair, Technical Development and Proceedings Integration, CAAD Futures 2025.
- Industry collaboration with the Hong Kong Green Building Council and the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department.
Public scholarship
- Exhibitor and co-author, Social Condenser Extraordinaire: Hong Kong's Municipal Services Buildings, Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive, La Biennale di Venezia collateral event, May-November 2025.
- Lead instructor for the public student exhibition Our Response to Climate Change | Hong Kong 2100 at HKU.