AIMS

To promote the international exchange of knowledge and experience in the field of urban informatics for smart city;

To help professionals in the fields relevant to urban informatics to achieve career success, through academic exchange programmes, publications and the network of cross-disciplinary experts.

ORGANIZATIONS

PRESIDENT

Prof. John W.Z. SHI

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (UK)
Chair Professor and Director of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

COMMISSIONSCo-Chairs

Commission 1: Urban Informatics Science

To advance urban science through understanding the relationships among people, place and technologies

Prof. Michael Batty

University College London

Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society

Chairman of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Emeritus Professor of Planning, University College London, UK

Prof. Anthony Yeh

The University of Hong Kong

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (UK), Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences, Fellow of TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries)

Chair Professor of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Commission 2: Urban Informatics System and Applications

To understand the urban system and provide innovative applications to various urban issues

Prof. Ying Jin

University of Cambridge

Academician of the Academy of Urbanism (AoU), UK

Director of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, and Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (UK), Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (UK)

Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management & Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Commission 3: Urban Sensing and Positioning

To provide cutting-edge technologies for urban sensing, data acquisition, positioning, and navigation

Prof. Qingquan Li

Shenzhen University

Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, Foreign Academician of Russian Academy of Engineering

Party Secretary of Shenzhen University

Prof. Manfred Ehlers

University of Osnabrueck

Professor for GIS and Remote Sensing and the Director of the University's Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing, Osnabrück University, Germany

Commission 4: Urban Big Data and Infrastructure

To advance urban data management, integration, visualization, interoperation, quality, and security

Prof. Michael Goodchild

University of California, Santa Barbara

Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society

Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Commission 5: Urban Analytics and Computing

To advance urban data analytics, computation methods, and computational solutions for smart cities

Prof. Jianya Gong

Wuhan University

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor at Wuhan University, China

Prof. Carlo Ratti

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of MIT Senseable City Lab

Terms of Reference:

  • Promotion of Urban Informatics
  • Organization of Commission Symposium and working group meetings
  • Organization of special issues for the journal Urban Informatics
  • Organization of related sessions for ICUI series

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