Hongbo Fu is a Professor and Acting Head at the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before joining HKUST, he worked at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, for over 15 years. He had postdoctoral research training at the Imager Lab, University of British Columbia, Canada, and the Department of Computer Graphics, Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany. He received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2007 and a BS degree in information sciences from Peking University, China, in 2002. His primary research interests fall in computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and computer vision. His research has led to over 200 scientific publications, including 80+ papers in the best graphics/vision journals (ACM TOG, IEEE TVCG, IEEE PAMI) and 40+ papers in the best graphics/vision/HCI conferences (SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, CHI, UIST). His works have received a Silver Medal from Special Edition 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days (IGED), the Best Demo awards at the Emerging Technologies program, SIGGRAPH Asia in 2013 and 2014, and the Best Paper awards from CAD/Graphics 2015 and UIST 2019.

He was the Organization Co-Chair of Pacific Graphics 2012, the Program Chair/Co-chair of CAD/Graphics 2013 & 2015, SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 (Emerging Technologies) & 2014 (Workshops), Pacific Graphics 2018, Computational Visual Media (CVM) 2019, the Conference Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2016, Expressive 2018, and CVM 2025, and more recently the Assistant Chair of SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 Technical Papers Program. He was on the SIGGRAPH Asia Conference Advisory Group and is currently Vice-Chairman of the Asia Graphics Association. He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Computer Graphics Forum, Computers & Graphics, and The Visual Computer.