Dr. Liucheng Guo
Dr Liucheng Guo is a Chinese-born engineer, AI researcher, and deep-tech entrepreneur who holds degrees from Peking University and Imperial College London, where he completed his PhD specialising in AI software-hardware co-design and optomechanical sensing. After his doctorate he applied his signal processing expertise at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, working on medical imaging challenges, before channelling his skills into consumer technology.
His path to entrepreneurship began when he met Ming Kong, whose vision for a new generation of touch-sensitive interfaces aligned precisely with the AI and signal processing capabilities Dr Guo had developed through his research. Together they co-founded TG0 in 2015, with Dr Guo architecting the company's AI platform, the algorithmic layer that can read and interpret micro-signal changes within any material, effectively transforming plastics, rubber, glass, and metals into intelligent sensors without additional hardware.
As Co-Founder and CTO of TG0, Dr Guo leads the company's technical development across AI software-hardware co-design, embedded AI, and high-performance computing. He is also an Industrial Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London, where he continues to advance the academic frontiers of smart and sustainable human-machine interfaces for smart home, IoT, automotive, XR, and healthcare applications. He has applied for seven groups of patents and published over 20 research papers, winning HiPEAC paper awards for contributions to computer architecture.
Dr Guo's work at TG0 has received funding from the Design Council, InnovateUK, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the European Innovation Council. His technical vision is encapsulated in the maxim: touch is sensing, all things are interactive. TG0's technology has been deployed by global automotive suppliers, VR hardware companies, and sports technology brands, and the company was invited to present at 10 Downing Street as part of the UK's Future Fifty programme.
