Ce Guo (/tsə ɡwɔː/) is a programmer who occasionally attempts to write research papers. He works on hardware acceleration and computational risk management: making causal discovery and market simulation fast enough to be worth doing, searching hardware design spaces under resource constraints, and building models that can be asked why. These are, regrettably, less fashionable than invoking an LLM and treating the stochastic echo as a considered opinion. He is also a GARP-certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), which gives him a perfectly respectable excuse to worry about money professionally.

Imperial College London employs him as a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing, probably because he has little patience for compiler warnings, or for conclusions with no working shown. He encourages students to build things that run, then publish the code so others can check whether they do. His papers are heavy on block diagrams and untidy time-series plots, and light on confident stories that take the place of careful reasoning. These priorities are regularly rewarded with polite rejection, which has given him extensive empirical data on how not to get published. His supervision is best described as a virtual atelier of the alchemical kind: he has yet to produce any gold, and takes on students anyway. Occasionally, something goes wrong and he or his students win an award: at ASAP (2013), FCCM (2015, 2024), ICAIF (2025) and FPT (2026).

To Ce, robot arms, financial markets, and computer chips look less different than they probably should; the same mechanisms keep turning up across fields under different names. He likes explanations that are compact, explicit, and easy to prove wrong, and suspects the world has fewer patterns than there are disciplines. His professional ambition is therefore modest: to become the best chip designer among financial risk managers and the best financial risk manager among chip designers. He suspects the competition in both categories is manageable.