Professor Ho is an Associate Professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). He completed his BSc (Hon 1, Medal) and PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Sydney, and undertook postdoctoral training in at Harvard Medical School. He is an expert in developing scalable computational methods to analyse single cell omic data, metagenomic data, and digital health data. Professor Ho has over 139 publications, including first or senior papers in leading journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research and Cell Systems.

Professor Ho is also currently the Programme Co-Director of BSc (Bioinformatics), Deputy Director of EdTech (AI), Academic Lead of the Bioinformatics Core of the Centre for PanorOmic Sciences (CPOS) at HKU, and Lead Scientist of Laboratory Data Discovery for Health. He is an Executive Editor of the journal Biophysical Reviews. He co-founded a digital health company Vitome Limited.