For his outstanding achievements in geographic information science, remote sensing, urban informatics and smart cities, Prof. John Shi, Head of the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI), Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Urban Informatics, Chair Professor of GISci and Remote Sensing & Director, Laboratory for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics, has been elected to be an academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS).
Established in 1996, the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) is a non-governmental science organization formed by natural scientists, engineering and technical experts, and social scientists from around the world, and committed to promoting international exchange in science and technology, in particular in Europe and Asia. The goal of IEAS is solving of global problems caused by contemporary civilization and working out approaches of transfer to sustainable development in social-economical and spiritual and moral spheres of human society life by integration of creative potential of figures of science, literature, art and religion of various countries
Joining a worldwide community of renowned scientists and experts from the natural sciences, engineering, and social sciences, Prof. Shi will be honoured in a ceremony scheduled for 16 November in Beijing at the China Science Center of IEAS. Congratulations to Prof. Shi!
