Guosheng Yin is the Patrick Poon Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and serves as an associate director in the School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD in Biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2003. Following this, he worked as an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and held the Chair in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London.

From 2017 to 2023, Yin was the head of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Hong Kong. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has served as an associate editor for several journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association and Bayesian Analysis. Guosheng has published over 260 peer-reviewed papers in statistical and medical journals, as well as in AI and machine learning conferences, and authored two books on clinical trial designs.