Wenzhong SHI

Professor SHI Wenzhong is currently the Director of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute of PolyU, Director of PolyU-Shenzhen Technology and Innovation Research Institute (Futian), Chair Professor in Geographic Information Science and Remote Sensing, and Director of Joint Research Laboratory on Spatial Information of PolyU and Wuhan University. He is Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (UK). He earned his doctoral degree from University of Osnabruck in Vechta, Germany in 1994. He is a Fellow of Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Hong Kong Institute of Surveyors, Professor Shi also serves as President of International Society for Urban Informatics and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Urban Informatics.
His research covers urban informatics for smart cities, geographic information 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 published almost 300 research articles in journals indexed by Web of Science and 20 books. He is among the worldly top 2% cited researchers according to the standardized citation indicators published by Elsevier BV and scholar in Stanford University. He has 34 patents grants.
Professor Shi has won Natural Science Award, China’s highest award for fundamental research, in 2007; Distinguished Scholar Prize by CPGIS, Gold Medal in Geneva Invention Expo, and Smart 50 Awards (US) in 2021; Founder’s Award by International Spatial Accuracy Research Association in 2020; Science and Technology Progress Award in Surveying and Mapping (Grand Award) in 2017; Wang Zhizhuo Award by International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2012; and ESRI Award for Best Scientific Paper by American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2006.