About the Director

Prof. Kwan Mei Po becomes the new Director of Institute of Space and Earth Information Science with effect from 1 August 2019, succeeding Professor Lin Hui who completed his term at the end of July, 2019. Prof. Kwan is also appointed as Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shatin, Hong Kong.

Prof. Kwan Mei Po is an elected fellow of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others. She has received many other prestigious honors and awards, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors and the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers (AAG); the Alan Hay Award from the Transport Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG); the U.S. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Research Award; and the Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award from the AAG Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group.

Prof. Kwan had served as an editor of Annals of the American Association of Geographers for 12 years and is editor of the book series entitled SAGE Advances in Geographic Information Science and Technology. Her research interests include environmental health, sustainable cities, human mobility, urban/social issues in cities, and GIScience. Kwan has received about US$56 million support as PI or co-PI from sources including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published 37 edited or co-edited volumes and 210 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She has delivered over 200 keynote addresses and invited lectures in about 20 countries.

For more information please visit: www.meipokwan.org

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 7 Nov, 2022

MSc students Awarded ISEIS Scholarship (2022-23)
Congratulation our MSc students Chen Siyu, Huang Zhijie, Liu Anli and Mok Ho Yi for awarded the Scholarship of MSc in Environmental Information, Health and Public Management (2022-23) by Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

 

 



 5 August, 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Peifeng Ma, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK effective Aug 1, 2022. Prof. Ma is also a recipient of the VC Early Career Professorship Scheme offer.

Congratulations also to Prof. Zihan Kan, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, CUHK effective Aug 1, 2022.


 7 July, 2022

Pleased to announce that Prof. Mei-Po Kwan and Prof. Peifeng Ma have just been awarded a General Research Fund (GRF) in the 2022-23 exercise. Congratulations!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 8 June, 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, Director of ISEIS, has been awarded the 2022 James R. Anderson Medal of Honor in Applied Geography, which is the highest honor bestowed by the Applied Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers (AAG).

 

 

 

 

 


 5 May, 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Jiannan Cai on receiving a 3-year RGC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

 

 

 


 3 May, 2022

Professor Kwan will be the speaker in “Advancing Women Academics in Leadership” webinar

 

 


 29 April, 2022

Using GIScience to Combat COVID-19 and Keep People Healthy

 

 

 


 17 Novermber, 2021

Professor Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, has been named to the 2021 Highly Cited Researchers list

 

 

 


 8 Novermber, 2021

Professor Kwan, ISEIS Director, will have a seminar about Hazards, Vulnerability, and Geography

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 30 September, 2021

Professor Kwan, ISEIS Director, will have a seminar about Big Data and Geospatial Technologies for Smart Cities Research in HKUST

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 23 September, 2021

News report on CUHK Innovation Day: Satellite aerial mobile remote sensing technologies for public and infrastructural health by ISEIS

From HK01

From Cable TV

 


 16 September, 2021

Professor Peifeng Ma is invited to be the organizing committee member of the BIGSARDATA2021.

 

 

 

 


 6 August, 2021

Postgraduate Research Output Award 2020

 

 

 

 


 5 August, 2021

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will be presenting a keynote speech on "Urban Place-making" in an online international workshop on August 20, 2021 as part of an international event "Women and Urbanization in China: Building a Transformative Knowledge Network".


 4 August, 2021

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will give an invited keynote speech from 4:00 pm to 4:15 pm (HK Time) on August 13 at the 19th International Conference on Spatial Data Handling and Geographic Intelligence

 


 2 July, 2021

ISEIS Director recently received a major grant from the HK Research Grants Council (RGC): Professor Mei-Po Kwan - "Geoprivacy Concerns for and Acceptance of COVID-19 Control Measures that Use Individual Georeferenced Data." (HK$902,274; 2022/23 General Research Fund (GRF)


 25 May, 2021

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, is invited to attend the Policy Forum on Winning the War on COVID - Policy Insights from Computational Social Science, organised by the Faculty of Social Science and Policy Research @ HKIAPS, Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).


 21 May, 2021

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, willl give an invited talk

 

 

 

 
 


 3 May, 2021

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will present the research with new insights and recent advances in IJGIS Webinar Series.

 

    


 


 23 April, 2021

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, will be the Keynote speaker at the International Workshop in University of Melbourne.

 

 


 


 8 April, 2021

Prof. Mei-Po Kwan, ISEIS Director, and her group will be speaking at the AAG Annual Meeting 2021.

 

  


 


 26 March, 2021

Professor Huang Bo receives awards in the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva

Gold Medal: PhotoAir: Measuring indoor and outdoor PM2.5 with a mobile phone

   


 10 March, 2021

Prof. Kwan Mei Po, Director of ISEIS was invited to the below webinar jointly organised by the Department of Geography & the Centre for Geo-computation Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University on 11 March 2021.
     


8 March, 2021

ISEIS researchers recently received three major grants from the HK Research Grants Council (RGC) 
 

   
 
 
 


8 March, 2021

MSc students Awarded Scholarship (2020-21) 
 



 
    
 


4 March, 2021

ISEIS Director, Professor Mei-Po Kwan receives 2021 AAG Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography 
 


    
   


20 October, 2020

关美宝教授将于粤港澳空间科学与技术联盟2020进行线上报告
 
 


 
   
 


 15 October, 2020

香港中文大学(中大)太空与地球信息科学研究所(太空所)马培峰博士团队作为第二申请者获得中国测绘学会2020年测绘科学技术一等奖(详情请见:连接),这是香港中文大学首次获得测绘科技进步奖。
 
  
 
   


2 September 2020

Master of Science in Environmental Information, Health and Public Management Seminar calendar 2020-21






 


31 August, 2020

Please join a Leadership Spotlight: An One-hour Interview with Dr. Mei-Po Kwan by Dr. Marie Price, President of American Geographical Society (AGS).






 

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