Asian Cartographic Conference 2024

Prof. Anthony G.O. Yeh is currently the Chan To Haan Professor in Urban Planning and Design and Chair Professor in Urban Planning and Geographic Information Systems of the Department of Urban Planning and Design and Director of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research Centre of The University of Hong Kong. His main areas of specialization are the applications of geographic information systems in urban and regional planning and smart cities and urban planning and development in Hong Kong, China, and SE Asia. He was elected as an Academician of The Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, Fellow of The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World in 2010, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in UK in 2013, and Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2019. He was the recipient of the 2008 UN-HABITAT Lecture Award and 2012 Dr. Gill-Chin Lim Global Award presented in the 53rd Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) held in Cincinnati, USA, 2012. He also received the Distinguished Research Achievement Award of HKU in 2016, the Life Time Achievement Award in GIS from the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographical Information Sciences (CPGIS) in 2017 and Gold Medal in the 46th Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions in 2018.

Prof. John Wenzhong Shi is 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 Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prof Shi obtained his doctoral degree from University of Osnabrück in Vechta, Germany in 1994. He is Fellow of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. Prof Shi’s current research interests include 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 250 research articles that are indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI) and 15 books.

Prof Liqiu Meng conducts research in the field of cartography and visual analytics. Her recent research focus includes geodata integration, spatial cognition, Mixed Reality, visual data mining, map-based multimodal navigation services, and open portal for geospatial events. Prof. Meng earned her M.Sc. in cartography and geodetic engineering in 1985 in China and her PhD in geodetic engineering at the University of Hannover in 1993. She earned her university teaching qualification in 1998 at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, and was appointed to the Chair of Cartography at TUM the same year. From 2009 to 2012, Prof. Meng was Senator of the Helmholtz Association for the research field Earth and Environment. From 2008 to 2014, she served as Senior Vice President of TUM for international alliances and alumni. She has been a member of the German National Academy of Sciences since 2011 and of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences since 2013. She is Vice President for the International Cartographic Association.

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan is a geographer known for her research contributions in Geographic Information Science, and human geography, particularly as they apply to time geography and human mobility. She is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science (ISEIS) of CUHK, Director of the Institute of Future Cities of CUHK, and Head of Chung Chi College of CUHK. Prof Kwan has made groundbreaking contributions to diverse research areas, covering environmental health, urban travel and health issues in cities, sustainability, human mobility, and geographic information science (GIScience), among others. She is a leading worldwide researcher having developed and deployed real-time GPS tracking and mobile sensing, such as air quality sensors, to collect individual-level data for environmental health research. She is also the first scientist who deploys remote sensing technologies for vehicle detection, and develops Hong Kong’s first low Earth orbit satellite.

Prof. Qihao Weng, a Foreign Member of The Academy of Europe (Academia Europaea), and a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, AAG, ASPRS and AAIA, is currently a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and worked as the Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Change and a Professor of Geography at Indiana State University, 2001-2021, and a Senior Fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 2008 to 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Georgia in 1999. Weng is the Lead of GEO Global Urban Observation and Information Initiative, 2012-2022, and an Editor-in-Chief of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Additionally, he serves as the Series Editor of Taylor & Francis Series in Remote Sensing Applications, and Taylor & Francis Series in Imaging Science. Weng has been the Organizer and Program Committee Chair of the biennial IEEE/ISPRS/GEO sponsored International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications conference series since 2008, a National Director of American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from 2007 to 2010, and a panelist of U.S. DOE’s Cool Roofs Roadmap and Strategy in 2010.