Prof. WENG Qihao, Associate Director of the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS), Member of the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI) and Chair Professor of Geomatics and Artificial Intelligence, received the 2024 AAG Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography from the American Association of Geographers (AAG), and the Lifetime Achievement Honor Award 2024 from the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group (RSSG), respectively. The dual recognitions are a testament to his remarkable contributions in the fields. A prize presentation and a special conference session in honour of Prof. Weng took place at the AAG Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, in April 2024.
The AAG is a non-profit scientific and educational society aimed at bringing advancements to geography and related fields. The AAG Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research is awarded to geographers from the academic, public or private sector whose research has made transformational research contributions to geography or geographic information science, or to science and society more broadly. The AAG RSSG Lifetime Achievement Honor Award is bestowed upon individuals who have made a unique and path-breaking impact on remote sensing and related disciplines through research, education and service engagement.
