Committee of RSGPA 2024

General Chair

Prof. Guoqing Zhou

Guilin University of Technology, China

Vice President

Biography:

Guoqing Zhou is the Vice President of Guilin University of Technology, Professor, Ph.D. supervisor of Tianjin University and Guilin University of Technology, Director of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Mapping, Director of Remote Sensing Research Center of Tianjin University. Zhou is a national specially-appointed expert, selected for the National Major Talent Project, a young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions, a candidate of the National Ten Million Talent Project, a reserve candidate of academicians in Guangxi, and a subject expert of the National 12th Five-Year Plan 863, etc. He has been awarded the Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress by the Ministry of Education. His achievements have won the second prize in scientific and technological progress from the Ministry of Education, the first prize of natural science in Guangxi, the first prize of technological invention in Guangxi, the first prize of scientific and technological progress in Guangxi, the first prize of scientific and technological progress in surveying and mapping in China, two first prizes of teaching achievements in Guangxi, the Talbert Abrams Gold Medal of the U.S.A., the Humboldt Foundation Prize of Germany (all ranked the first), and 57 other awards. He has been selected as one of China's highly cited scholars for three consecutive years (2020-2022), and has been recognized as one of the world's top 2% of top scientists in the "Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking (1960-2022)" and "2022 Annual Scientific Influence Ranking" in 2022. "He has published 11 monographs (including one in English). He has published 11 monographs (including 5 in English), more than 570 SCI/EI papers, including 202 SCI papers, 73 domestic and foreign patents, and 49 software copyrights.

Technical Program Committee Chair

Prof. Jianjun Zhao

Northeast Normal University, China

Biography:

Zhao Jianjun received his B.S. degree in geographic information system and his Ph.D. degree in cartography and geographic information system from Northeast Normal University, China, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. From 2011 to 2012, he was a joint-program Ph.D. student with the Department of Natural Resources Science, University of Rhode Island. He is currently a Professor at the School of Geographic Science, Northeast Normal University. His research interests include remote sensing inversion of vegetation parameters, global climate change, remote sensing of vegetation phenology, 3G technology and precision agriculture, urban space and time big data mining, artificial intelligence, and deep learning.

Organizing Committee Chair

Prof. Jie Cheng

Beijing Normal University, China

Biography:

Jie Cheng, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, received his Ph.D. degree in Cartography and GIS from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in June 2008, and was admitted to the Postdoctoral Station of the Center for Remote Sensing and GIS Research at Beijing Normal University (BNU) in the same year. He then worked as an Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Geography at the University of Maryland (U.S.) from October 2009 to March 2010 and was appointed to the Institute of Global Change and Earth System Research at BNU after his postdoctoral release. In June 2010, he was appointed by the Institute of Global Change and Earth System Research of Beijing Normal University. His research focus is thermal infrared quantitative remote sensing, including thermal infrared hyperspectroscopy, radiative transfer simulation, and remote sensing estimation of radiative energy balance covariates at the surface. He has published more than 80 SCI articles (including more than 50 first/corresponding authors). He has presided over more than 10 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member, Editorial Board Member of Remote Sensing, and Associate Editor of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters.

Prof. Anhong Tian

Kunming University of Science and Technology, China

Biography:

Anhong Tian is a professor, a doctor of engineering, a master's supervisor, the director of the Association of Women in Science and Technology Workers, a member of the CAA fractional order systems and control committee, a member of the Kunming University of Science and Technology High-Level Introduced Talents Program (four levels). She was once at Huawei, working on software research and development. She has chaired over 2 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, more than 10 projects of the Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department, and won one prize of Excellent Science and Technology Innovation Achievement Award for Postgraduates in Yunnan Province. In recent years, he has published more than 30 SCI papers in IEEE TGRS, INT J BIFURCAT CHAOS, REMOTE SENSING, Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis and other domestic and international journals. She has guided students to participate in disciplinary competitions and won more than 10 awards at the provincial level or above.

Prof. Jinhua Wang

North China University of Science and Technology, China

Biography:

Jinhua Wang is a professor and master's supervisor in the Department of Surveying and Mapping of the College of Mining Engineering. She is a famous teacher in Hebei Province and an advanced individual in teacher ethics in Hebei Province. Several graduate students under her supervision have been honored with excellent master's theses at the North China University of Science and Technology. He mainly focuses on the research directions of regional remote sensing monitoring and hyperspectral data analysis, geomagnetic positioning, and downhole GIS risk avoidance. In recent years, she has completed more than 20 vertical and horizontal projects for the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Department of Science and Technology of Hebei Province, as well as 8 horizontal projects for Tangshan Mapping Technology Service. She has published more than 30 scientific papers, including 23 papers in core journals, 8 papers in EI search, and 1 monograph. Her works "GIS Support Service System for Ecological Management of Secondary Wetlands in Urban Mining and Sinking Areas" and "Mechanism Research and Modeling of GIS Network Analysis Technology for Underground Emergency Rescue" sponsored by the Hebei Science and Technology Department and Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province were awarded the first prize of Science and Technology by Hebei Surveying and Mapping Society, and the first prize of Science and Technology of Hebei Society of Surveying and Mapping.

Publication Chair

Assoc. Prof. Wang Li

Kunming University of Science and Technology, China

Biography:

Wang Li, born in September 1990, is a Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor, and Master Supervisor. He  Ph.D. degree from Hohai University and RMIT University and served as a postdoctoral fellow at China University of Mining and Technology, and is one of the young talents under the "Xingdian Talent Support Program" of Yunnan Province. He is currently the deputy director of the Department of Surveying and Mapping, School of Land and Resource Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology. He is mainly engaged in the research of GNSS meteorology, navigation and positioning, and space weather sensing. In the past five years, he has published more than 50 papers in well-known SCI journals, such as the Journal of Geodesy, GPS Solutions, Space Weather, etc. He has chaired over 10 projects, such as the Yunnan Provincial Talent Program, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province. His research results have been adopted by the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and he has won the International Committee for Space Research (COSPAR) Young Scientist Award, the second prize of China Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Award, the first prize of Outstanding Paper of China Society of Surveying and Mapping, and the Second Prize of Outstanding Paper of China Council of Geodesy and Navigation.