Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Urban Informatics, Chair Professor in GISci and Remote Sensing, Director of PolyU-Shenzhen Technology and Innovation Research Institute (Futian), Director of Smart Cities Research Institute, Head of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics department, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and Joint Research Laboratory on Spatial Information, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Wuhan University. He served as President of Commission II for International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2008-2012) and President for Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (2001-2003). He also serves as an editorial board member for multiple international journals. He obtained his doctoral degree from University of Osnabrück in Vechta, Germany in 1994. Areas of interest: urban informatics for Smart Cities, GISci and remote sensing, intelligent analytics and quality control for spatial big data, artificial-intelligence-based object extraction and change detection from satellite imagery, and mobile mapping and 3-D modelling based on LiDAR and remote sensing imagery. He has published more than 220 research articles that are indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI) and 15 books.

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