Professor Shi WenzhongDirector of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Professor Wenzhong Shi is the Director of Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Director of PolyU-Shenzhen Technology and Innovation Research Institute (Futian), Chair Professor in Geographic 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. 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 of Urban Informatics.
Prof Shi has published more than 270 research articles in journals indexed by Web of Science and 15 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. His research covers fields ranging from urban informatics for smart cities, geographic information science and remote sensing, and intelligent analytics and quality control for spatial big data, to artificial-intelligence-based object extraction and change detection from satellite imagery, and mobile mapping and 3-D modelling based on LiDAR and remote sensing imagery.
Professor Shi won numerous accolades, such as the 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; China’s 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 in Geo-informatic Science by American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 2006.
