Urban informatics for the smart city

Professor Shi is Head of Department and Chair Professor in Geographic Information Science (GISci) and remote sensing, for Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, and Director for Laboratory for Smart City and Spatial Big Data Analytics, at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his doctoral degree from University of Osnabruck in Vechta, Germany in 1994.

Professor Shi's current research interests are in the areas of GISci and remote sensing, with a focus on uncertainty modelling and quality control for spatial data, object extraction and change detection from satellite images and laser scanning (LiDAR) data, 3D and dynamic modelling and spatial analysis in GISci.

Professor Shi served as President of Commission on Theory and Concepts of Spatial Information Science, International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (2008-2012). He also serves as an editorial board member for a number of international journals. He has published more than 200 journal articles and over 10 books.

Please join us in welcoming Professor Shi to UCL.