Academic Interests:

• Photogrammetry and Robotic Vision                  + Publications

• Planetary Remote Sensing and Mapping             + Publications

• GIS and Applications                                       + Publications

Experience:

• 01/2022 - Present: Fiona Cheung Endowed Professor in Spatial Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• 07/2020 - Present: Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• 07/2015 - 07/2020: Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• 07/2009 - 07/2015: Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

• 07/2006 - 07/2009: Post-doctoral Researcher, The Ohio State University, USA

Education:

• Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - 2006 
  State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China
  Thesis: A Reliable Image Matching Method Based on the Self-adaptive Triangle Constraint
  (Nomination Award for the National 100 Excellent Ph.D. Dissertations, China, 2008)

• M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Highway Surveying, Changsha University of Science & Technology, China, 2003 and 2000

Administration:

• Associate Director of Research Centre for Deep Space Explorations (2022-)
• Associate Head of Department of Land Surveying & Geo-Informatics (2020-)
• Chairman of Department Research Committee (2020-)
• Programme Leader of MSc in Geomatics (2014-2020)
• Deputy Chairman of Department Research Committee (2014-2020)
• Member of Department Staffing Committee (2014-)
• Member of Faculty Research Committee (2014-)
• Programme Leader of BSc in Geomatics (2+2) (2013-2015)
• Member of Faculty Board (2009-2014)
• Deputy Programme Leader of BSc in Geomatics (2009-2014)

Professional Activities:

• Editorial Service
  Associate Editor, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing
  Editorial Board Member, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  Editorial Board Member, The Photogrammetric Record (2016-2021)
  Guest Editor, Remote Sensing, Theme issue on "Planetary 3D Mapping, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning"
  Guest Editor, International Journal of Digital Earth, Theme issues on "Geovisual Analytics - Human Factors" and "Geovisual Analytics - Design and Implementation"

• Professional Qualifications and Memberships
  Chair, ISPRS Working Group III/II - Planetary Remote Sensing and Mapping (2022 - )
  Co-Chair, ISPRS Working Group II/6 - Geo-Visualization and Virtual Reality (2010 - 2016)
  Secretary, ISPRS Working Group III/II - Planetary Remote Sensing and Mapping (2016 - 2022)
  Co-Chair, Technical Committee on Deep Space Remote Sensing and Geomatics, Chinese Society of Surveying and Mapping (2022 - )
  (中国测绘学会 深空探测遥感测绘工作委员会 副主任委员) (2022 - )
  Council Member, Land Surveying Division, The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) (2022 - )
  Member, The Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors (HKIS) (2019 - )
  Council Member, Hong Kong Society for Remote Sensing (2014 - )
  Vice President, Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (2011 - 2012)
  Member of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), U.K. (2013 - )
  Member of American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) (2008 - )

• Organizing Conferences/Workshops
  Organizer, 2017 International Symposium on Planetary Remote Sensing and Mapping, 13-16 August 2017, Hong Kong
  Organizer, The 2016 Oblique Photogrammetry Workshop, 6 January 2016, Hong Kong
  Organizer, Special Session on "3D Urban Data Acquisition and Modeling", International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization (ICSU 2015), 7-9 January 2015, Hong Kong
  Member of Organizing Committee, 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality 2013, 30 May - 1 June 2013, Hong Kong
  Organizer, 7th Annual Seminar on Spatial Information Science and Technology (ASSIST) 2011, 30 September 2011, Hong Kong
  Member of Organizing Committee, Joint International Symposium on Deformation Monitoring (ISDM), 2-4 November 2011, Hong Kong
  Member of Organizing Committee, International Symposium on Remote Sensing and GIS Methods for Change Detection and Spatio-temporal Modelling (CDSM), 15-16 December 2011, Hong Kong
  Member of Organizing Committee, Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science (JIC-TDHM-GIS), 26-28 May 2010, Hong Kong

• External Reviewers
  Reviewer for research proposals submitted to:
  National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Singapore Land Transport Authority; Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; Austrian Science Fund (FWF); The French National Research Agency (ANR)
  
  Reviewer for research papers submitted to:
  JGR-Planets; Planetary and Space Science; Icarus; Earth, Planets and Space; Advances in Space Research; ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; Photogrammetry Engineering & Remote Sensing; IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing; Photogrammetric Record; ASCE Journal of Surveying Engineering; International Journal of Remote Sensing; Marine Geodesy; Computers & Geosciences; GIScience and Remote Sensing; International Journal of Digital Earth; International Journal of Computer Vision; Computer Vision and Image Understanding; Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Research Team

 Research Assistant Professors

 Students and Research Staff

 Former Students and Research Staff

 Dissertation Supervised