Prof John SHI

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), and Chair Professor in Geographic Science and Remote Sensing. He is Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (UK). He serves as President of International Society for Urban Informatics and Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Urban Informatics.

Prof Shi is among the worldly top 2% cited researchers according to Elsevier BV and scholar in Stanford University. His latest research covers urban informatics for smart cities, geographic information science, AI-based remote sensing, spatial big data analytics and quality control, and mobile mapping and 3-D modelling.

He has won numerous accolades such as the Natural Science Award, China’s highest award for fundamental research; Wang Zhizhuo Award by ISPRS; Distinguished Scholar Prize by CPGIS; and Gold Medal in Geneva Invention Expo.