Prof. Dr. Wenzhong Shi currently works at the Department of
Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He
also serves as the Director of the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities
Research Institute of PolyU, Director of PolyU-Shenzhen Technology and
Innovation Research Institute (Futian), Chair Professor in Geographic Science
and Remote Sensing, and Director of Joint Research Laboratory on Spatial
Information of PolyU and Wuhan University. He is an Academician of the
International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of
Social Sciences (UK). He earned his doctoral degree from the University of
Osnabruck in Vechta, Germany in 1994. He is a fellow of the Royal Institution
of Chartered Surveyors and the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. His research
covers urban informatics for smart cities, geo-informatic science and remote
sensing, artificial-intelligence-based object extraction and change detection
from satellite imagery, intelligent analytics and quality control for spatial
big data, and mobile mapping and 3-D modelling based on LiDAR and remote
sensing imagery. He has won the Natural Science Award, China’s highest award
for fundamental research, in 2007; the Distinguished Scholar Prize by CPGIS,
the Gold Medal at the Geneva Invention Expo, Smart 50 Awards (US) in 2021 and
the Founder’s Award by International Spatial Accuracy Research Association in
2020.
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Remote Sensing
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Short Biography
Prof. Dr. Wenzhong Shi currently works at the Department of
Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He
also serves as the Director of the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities
Research Institute of PolyU, Director of PolyU-Shenzhen Technology and
Innovation Research Institute (Futian), Chair Professor in Geographic Science
and Remote Sensing, and Director of Joint Research Laboratory on Spatial
Information of PolyU and Wuhan University. He is an Academician of the
International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Academy of
Social Sciences (UK). He earned his doctoral degree from the University of
Osnabruck in Vechta, Germany in 1994. He is a fellow of the Royal Institution
of Chartered Surveyors and the Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors. His research
covers urban informatics for smart cities, geo-informatic science and remote
sensing, artificial-intelligence-based object extraction and change detection
from satellite imagery, intelligent analytics and quality control for spatial
big data, and mobile mapping and 3-D modelling based on LiDAR and remote
sensing imagery. He has won the Natural Science Award, China’s highest award
for fundamental research, in 2007; the Distinguished Scholar Prize by CPGIS,
the Gold Medal at the Geneva Invention Expo, Smart 50 Awards (US) in 2021 and
the Founder’s Award by International Spatial Accuracy Research Association in
2020.
