Prof. Mei-Po Kwan

Mei-Po Kwan is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management and Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Kwan is a Fellow of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the American Association of Geographers. She had served as an editor of the Annals of the American Association of Geographers for 12 years. She is an associate editor of Travel Behaviour and Society and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Transport Geography, Applied Geography, International Journal of Geographical Information Science (IJGIS), and Geographical Analysis. She was named to 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List compiled by the Web of Science Group as one of the world's most influential researchers. She has received many prestigious honors and awards, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors, the E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award, and the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Kwan has received over US$57 million support as PI or co-PI from sources including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the GRF, CRF schemes of the HK Research Grants Council. She has over 310 publications (41 edited volumes and 272 journal articles and book chapters). She has delivered over 240 keynote addresses and invited lectures in about 20 countries. Kwan's research interests include environmental health, sustainable cities, human mobility, urban/social issues in cities, and GIScience.

Dr. Bin Chen

Bin Chen received the B.S. degree in geographic information systems from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in global environmental change from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, in 2017. He is currently a postdoc researcher at University of California, Davis. He has published more than 40 journal articles, including Science, PNAS, Remote Sensing of Environment, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, etc. His research interests include most aspects of geoscience and remote sensing, specifically multi-source data-model fusion and geospatial big data analysis in the field of urban and environmental health science.

Dr. Xinyue Ye

Xinyue Ye is Associate Professor of Stellar Faculty Provost Target Hire at Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Department of Geography at Texas A&M University, where he directs Urban Data Science Lab. With the career experience in urban planning, geography, and computational science, his research focuses on geospatial artificial intelligence, smart cities, and urban computing. Dr. Ye models the space-time perspective of socioeconomic inequality and human dynamics for applications in various domains, such as economic development, disaster response, transportation and land use, public health and urban crime. His work has been funded by National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, Department of Commerce, and Department of Energy.

Prof. Thian Yew Gan

Thian Yew Gan is a professor of civil & environmental engineering of the University of Alberta specializing in water resources, hydrology, cryosphere, remote sensing, and environmental impact of climate change. He is a research ambassador of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and a Lead author of AR6-WGI and contributing author of AR6-WGII of Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). He is the recipient of the ASET Technical Excellence Award of 2017, and 12 international fellowships from USA, Japan, Switzerland, France, Sweden, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Germany, Finland, and Australia. He has published over 140 refereed journal papers in various reputable international journals, e.g., Nature Publishing Group, and two books, “Global Cryosphere, Past, Present and Future”, 1^st and 2^nd editions by the Cambridge University Press. He has been a visiting professor/fellow to University of Philippines-Visayas (2019), Southern U of Science & Technology (2019), Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Baptist University & Ludwig Maximillian University, Germany (2019, 2017); Chinese University of Hong Kong (2016, 2017, 2019); Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellow of National U. of Singapore (2014), Tan Chin Duan fellow of Nanyang Technological U. of Singapore (2013); visiting professor of Aalto University, Finland (2013, 2017); visiting scholar of United Nation University (UNU-FLORES), Germany (2013); Rossby Fellow of Stockholm University, Sweden (2012); Erskine Fellow of University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2011); Visiting professor of Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland (2010); Research Scientist of Cemagraf, France (2009); CIRES Visiting Fellow of University of Colorado-Boulder (2007); DAAD and University professor of the highest academic rank (W3) of Technical University of Munich, Germany (2006-07); Adjunct professor of Utah State University, USA (1998-2005); Honorary Professor of Xian University of Technology and Yangtze University of China; JSPS Fellow of Kyoto University (2000) and guest professor of Saga University (1999) of Japan, and assistant professor, Asian Inst. of Technology (1989-1990), Bangkok.

Prof. Shiming Xu

Shiming Xu is a tenured associate professor at Department of Earth System Science of Tsinghua University. Before joining Tsinghua in 2011, he received Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Delft University of Technology, Master’s Degree in Computer Science and Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering, both from Tsinghua University. His research interests include model development for geo-fluid dynamics, sea ice data retrieval and polar climate change. Recently his work has been focusing on developing novel satellite retrieval algorithms for sea ice by physical synergy of different payloads. Specifically, he designed new retrieval framework that combine passive microwave imagers and altimeters for the retrieval of thickness parameters of the sea ice and its snow cover. In his talk, he will cover the status-quo and recent progress in the multi-source, multi-resolution observation of the polar sea ice, as well as related scientific topics including snow-ice interaction and sea ice prediction.

Dr. Jianfeng Li

Jianfeng Li is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Director of the Centre for Geo-computation Studies of Hong Kong Baptist University. His major research interests include hydroclimatology, environmental change, and water hazards, focusing on climate change impacts on hydrological processes and the environment, especially hydrological and climatic extremes. He is an associate editor of Hydrological Processes, an international journal in hydrology, and has been active in serving in various professional communities. His studies have been published in top-tier journals, including Nature Climate Change, PNAS, Journal of Hydrometeorology, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Speakers/Presentations

Time (UTC+8)

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan

Big Data and Geospatial Technologies for Healthy Cities Research

14:30pm–15:15pm

Dr. Bin Chen

Leveraging GeoData and Remote Sensing in Urban and Environmental Health

15:15pm–16:00pm

Speakers/Presentations

Time (UTC+8)

Dr. Xinyue Ye

Spatial Social Network Analytics of COVID-19

10:00am–10:45am

Speakers/Presentations

Time (UTC+8)

Prof. Thian Yew Gan

Remote Sensing of Environment: Near Surface Soil Moisture, Gross Primary Production, Seawater Turbidity, Urban Flood Management, Subsidence Monitoring, Vegetation Indices, and Snow Cover Mapping

10:00am–10:45am

Prof. Shiming Xu

Satellite Remote Sensing of the Arctic Sea Ice and Its Snow Cover

10:45am–11:30am

Dr. Jianfeng Li

Impact of Spatial Resolution on Assessment of Changes in Precipitation Extremes Under Climate Change

11:30am–12:15am

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