Academic Interests:

• Photogrammetry and Robotic Vision                  + Publications

• Planetary Remote Sensing and Mapping             + Publications

• GIS and Applications                                       + Publications

Experience:

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

• July 2015 - June 2020: Associate Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

• July 2009 - June 2015: Assistant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

• July 2008 - July 2009: Research Associate (Engineering), The Ohio State University, USA

• July 2006 - July 2008: Post-doctoral Researcher, The Ohio State University, USA

• July 1999 - July 2000: Intern, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, China

Education:

• Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - June, 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. in GIS for Transportation and B.Sc. in Highway Surveying Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, China, 2003 and 2000

Administration:

• 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 (Impact Factor: 1.265)
  Editorial Board Member, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Impact Factor: 7.319)
  Editorial Board Member, The Photogrammetric Record (2016-2021)
  Guest Editor, Remote Sensing (Impact Factor: 4.509), Theme issue on "Planetary 3D Mapping, Remote Sensing and Machine Learning"
  Guest Editor, International Journal of Digital Earth (Impact Factor: 3.097)
                        Theme issue on "Geovisual Analytics - Human Factors"
                        Theme issue on "Geovisual Analytics - Design and Implementation"

• Professional Qualifications and Memberships
  Secretary, ISPRS Working Group III/II - Planetary Remote Sensing and Mapping (2016 - )
  Co-Chair, ISPRS Working Group II/6 - Geo-Visualization and Virtual Reality (2010 - 2016)
  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 重点、优青、面上、青年项目)
  - Singapore Land Transport Authority
  - Netherlands organization for Scientific Research
  - Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
  
  Reviewer for research papers submitted to:
  ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; Planetary and Space Science; 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; Annals of GIS; Planetary and Space Science; Earth, Planets and Space;    International Journal of Computer Vision; Computer Vision and Image Understanding; Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; Journal of Coastal Conservation: Planning and Management; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; IET Image Processing

Students and Research Staff

Former Students and Research Staff

Dissertation Supervised

Application of GIS Analysis on Water Supply Pipe Management