Prof. Michael F. Goodchild is awarded University Consortium of Geographical Information Science (UCGIS) Fellow status in recognition of his leadership, contributions to UCGIS, and his remarkable impact on the field of GIScience. Goodchild is the Jack and Laura Dangermond Chair of Geography and Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge in physics (1965) and earned a Ph. D. in geography at McMaster University in 1969. He is recognized as the leading academic GIS practitioner in the world. He was elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Royal Society of the British Academy. He has been awarded four honorary doctorates and France’s Prix Vautrin Lud. He serves on the editorial boards of ten journals and has had published 15 books and 400 articles. He was editor of the journal Geographical Analysis and of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. He was Chair of the National Research Council’s Mapping Science Committee. Currently he is Director of UCSB’s Center for Spatial Studies which he helped establish.

Prof. Michael Batty is Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London where he is Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA). He has worked on computer models of cities and their visualisation since the 1970s and has published several books, such as Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2005) which won the Alonso Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011, and most recently The New Science of Cities (MIT Press, 2013). His blogs www.complexcity.info cover the science underpinning the technology of cities and his posts and lectures on big data and smart cities are at www.spatialcomplexity.info . His research group is working on simulating long term structural change and dynamics in cities as well as their visualisation. Prior to his current position, he was Professor of City Planning and Dean at the University of Wales at Cardiff and then Director of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the Royal Society (FRS), was awarded the CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2004 and the 2013 recipient of the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud (generally known as the 'Nobel de Géographie'). This year 2015 he received the Founders Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for his work on the science of cities.

Professor Anthony G.O. Yeh joined the Centre in 1981 after working as a Research Officer of the Strategic Planning Unit of the Hong Kong Government. He is now the Chair Professor of Department of Urban Planning and Design, Director of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research Centre and the Deputy Convenor of Contemporary China Studies Strategic Research Area of the University. He has been the Dean of the Graduate School, Director of Centre of Urban Studies and Urban Planning, Director of Institute of Transport Studies and Head of Department of Urban Planning and Design, My main areas of specialization are urban planning and development in Hong Kong, China, and SE Asia, and the applications of geographic information systems in urban and regional planning. He was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003, Fellow of TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World) in 2010, and Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in UK in 2013. He was the recipient of the 2008 UN-HABITAT Lecture Award in recognition of outstanding and sustained contribution to research, thinking and practice in human settlements development and planning and 2012 Dr. Gill-Chin Lim Global Award presented in the 53rd Annual Conference of Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) held in Cincinnati, USA, in November 2012, in recognition of global commitment and leadership as a scholar and an educator in the field of humanistic globalization. He is at present President of Asia Geographic Information System Association. He was Secretary-General of the Asian Planning Schools Association (APSA) and Asia Geographic Information System Association.He has been Chairman of the Hong Kong Geographical Association, Vice-President of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP), Vice-president of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP), Programme Director of the Geographic/Land Information Technology Programme of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP), Founding President of the Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (HKGISA), and Chairman of the Geographic Information Science Commission of the International Geographic Union (IGU). He is also honorary professor at various major universities and research institutes in China, including Institute of Geography, Beijing; Tongji University, Shanghai; Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, and Wuhan University, Wuhan. Apart from working in Hong Kong and China, He has done fieldwork in Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, Taiwan, and the Philippines. He has been invited to attend many expert group meetings of the United Nations Centre of Regional Development (UNCRD) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He has conducted many CPD training courses on urban planning and management and geographic information systems in Hong Kong and China. He has served on various planning related bodies of the Hong Kong Government. At present He is a member of the editorial board of Computers, Environment and Urban System, Transactions in GIS, Progress in Planning, International Planning Studies and other international journals. He has been a member of the Planners Registration Board, Transport Advisory Committee, Town Planning Appeal Board, Member of the Pan-PRD Panel of the Central Policy Unit and Chairman of the Transport Complaint Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government. At present, He is a member of the Appeal Tribunal (Buildings Ordinance). He has been invited to participate in many expert group meetings on master plans of Chinese cities, such as Guangzhou , Zhuhai, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou.

Prof. Jianya GONG is Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, Dean of school of Remote Sensing Information Engineering, Wuhan University, China. He studied as a PhD candidate at Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping， and Technical University of Denmark during the time period of 1988 – 1992 and got his Ph.D in 1992 Up to now Prof. Gong has experienced several professional careers in different countries. He worked as a lecturer at Department of Surveying and Mapping, East China Geology College from 1982 to 1988, and an Associate Professor at Department of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping, from 1992 to 1995, and worked as a visiting professor at Department of Geography, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA over the time period Oct.,1995 - Feb.,1996. He has been a Changjiang Chair professor at the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping and Wuhan University since 1996, and during that time period, he was invited as a visiting professor to work at Department of Surveying and Land Information, Hong Kong Polytechnic University from Mar.,1998 to Sep.,1998, a visiting professor to work at Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science in George Mason University from Nov. 2008 to Feb. 2009. Prof. Gong has been active in organizing international academic exchange. He was a secretary of ISPRS Commission III over the time period Sept., 1990 – July, 1992, a secretary of ISPRS Commission VI over the time period July, 1992 – July, 1996, a chair of Working Group of ISPRS WG IV/2(Federal Database and Interoperability) over the time period July, 2000 – July, 2004, a chair of Working Group of ISPRS WG VII/5(Multi Temporal Data Processing and Change Detection) and a co-chair of Academy Commission of ISPRS XXI Congress over the time period July, 2004 – July, 2008, a member of Working Group (Geographical Information Service) of ISO/TC211 over the time period May, 2003 - Nov., 20012, a chair of Working Group of ISPRS WG IV/4(Virtual Globes and Context-Aware Visualization) over the time period July, 2008- July, 20012. He was the president of the commission VI of ISPRS from July, 2012 to July, 2016. He is the president of CPGIS from Aug. 2017 to July. 2018. His research interests include geospatial data structure and data model, geospatial data integration and management, geographical information system software, geospatial data sharing and interoperability, Photogrammetry, GIS and remote sensing application. He has undertaken 40 research projects and published 12 books and more than 500 scientific papers. He got the Dolezal Award of ISPRS, and 6 national awards and more than 10 other awards in China. The citations of his papers are more than 10,000.

Dr. Shih-Lung Shaw is Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor and Arts and Sciences Excellence Professor of Geography as well as the Director of Confucius Institute at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from The Ohio State University and his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University. His research interests cover GIS for transportation (GIS-T), space-time GIS, time geography, transportation planning and modeling, and human dynamics. His recent research has focused on space-time analytics of human dynamics in a hybrid physical-virtual world based on various types of individual tracking data such as cell phone data, taxi tracking data, travel-activity survey data, and online social media data. Dr. Shaw currently represents the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) as an expert panel member to review the U.S. National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) for the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations. He also serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Geographical Information Science, Journal of Transport Geography, Travel Behaviour and Society, and Geographical Research (China). Dr. Shaw is a Faculty Fellow of the Center for Transportation Research and an affiliated faculty of the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning and the Center for Sustainable Business and Tourism at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is also appointed as a Guest Professor of Wuhan University and Southeast University in China and a Research Fellow of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. For additional information, please visit http://geography.utk.edu/about-us/faculty/dr-shih-lung-shaw/.

Prof.Mei-Po KWAN is a Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science. Her research addresses health, social, transportation, and environmental issues in urban areas through the application of innovative GIS methods. She is interested in understanding how social differences (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity, and religion) shape urban residents' everyday experiences and perceptions/use of the built environment. Her research interests include environmental health, human mobility, access to healthcare, neighborhood effects, sustainable travel and cities, and application of GIS methods in geographic research. She has received over $24 million grants as PI or Co-PI from sources including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the William T. Grant Foundation. She is currently Editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers and the book series entitled “SAGE Advances in Geographic Information Science and Technology.”

Prof.May Yuan (BS 1987 National Taiwan University; MS 1992 and Ph.D. 1994 State University of New York at Buffalo) is Ashbel Smith Professor of Geospatial Information Sciences in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. Before she joined UT-Dallas in August 2014, she was Brandt Professor and Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor and Director of Center for Spatial Analysis at the University of Oklahoma (1994-2014).She studies temporal GIS and its applications to geographic dynamics. Over the last 20 years, her research has developed new approaches to represent geographic processes and events in GIS databases to support space-time query, analytics and knowledge discovery. Her publications (75+) span fundamental and applied GIScience by developing new GIS data models and analysis methods to address environmental, ecological, and social problems, such as wildfire risk, tornado hazard, air pollution, species distribution, trophic dynamics, infectious disease, hazardous waste transport, historical narratives, and offender monitoring. Her recent work expands to cyber GIS and spatial big data. Her research has been supported by NSF, NASA, DoD, DHS, DoJ, DoE, NOAA, USGS, state government agencies, and the industry. She currently serves as the Associate Editor of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, member of the editorial boards of Annals of American Association of Geographers and Cartography and Geographical Information Science, and member of the academic committee of United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation. She also served on Mapping Science Committee at the National Research Council (2009-2014) and President of University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (2011-2012).