Keynote Speakers
Prof. Michael Batty
Director
Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
University College London
United Kingdom
Keynote Speech Title: Modeling and Predicting Crowding and Congestion in Small Spaces in Large Cities
Professor Mike Batty, Director of the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) and UCL Bartlett Professor of Planning, has been elected as one on 44 new Fellows of the Royal Society for 2009. Mike was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001 and awarded a CBE in 2004 for 'services to geography'. The election was for significant contributions to urban planning and design using the mathematical modelling of cities. As an FRS associated with UCL Geography, Mike joins Professor Rick Battarbee and Professor Sir Alan Wilson, Professor of Urban & Regional Systems in CASA.
Prof. Michael F. Goodchild
Professor
Department of Geography
University of California,
Santa Barbara
Director
Center for Spatial Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair, Executive Committee,
National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
Keynote Speech Title: The Future of Digital Earth
Michael F. Goodchild is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of UCSB’s Center for Spatial Studies. He received his B.A. degree from Cambridge University in Physics in 1965 and his Ph.D. in geography from McMaster University in 1969, and has received four honorary doctorates.
He was elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Canada (2002), member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006), and Foreign Member of the Royal Society and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2010); and in 2007 he received the Prix Vautrin Lud. He was editor of Geographical Analysis between 1987 and 1990 and editor of the Methods, Models, and Geographic Information Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 2000 to 2006. He serves on the editorial boards of ten other journals and book series, and has published more than 15 books and 400 articles.
He was Chair of the National Research Council’s Mapping Science Committee from 1997 to 1999, and currently chairs the Advisory Committee on Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation. His current research interests center on geographic information science, spatial analysis, and uncertainty in geographic data.
Prof. Li Deren
Academician
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Chairman
Academic Commission of Wuhan University
Chairman
National Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS)
Keynote Speech Title: Virtual Reality and Digital Cultural Heritage -- From Mogao Caves to Chi Lin Nunnery
Prof. Dr. Ing Li Deren is a scientist in photogrammetry and remote sensing; has dual membership of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering; is a member of the Euro-Asia International Academy of Science; Professor and PhD supervisor of Wuhan University; Vice-President of the Chinese Society of Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography; and is Chairman of both the Academic Commission of Wuhan University and the National Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS).
He has concentrated on the research and education in spatial information science and technology represented by remote sensing (RS), global positioning system (GPS) and geographic information system (GIS). His majors are the analytic and digital photogrammetry, remote sensing, mathematical morphology and its application in spatial databases, theories of object-oriented GIS and grid GIS as well as mobile mapping systems, etc.
Prof. Li Deren served as Comm. III and Comm. VI president of ISPRS in 1988-1992 and 1992-1996, worked for CEOS in 2002-2004 and president of Asia GIS Association in 2003-2006. He got Dr.h.c. from ETH in 2008.
Prof. Mei Po Kwan
Visiting Professor
Department of Geography
University of California, Berkeley
United States
Keynote Speech Title: How GIS Can Help Address the Uncertain Geographic Context Problem in Social Science Research?
Mei-Po Kwan is Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. She received the 2005 UCGIS Research Award for outstanding contributions to GIScience from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) and the Edward L. Ullman Award for outstanding contributions to Transportation Geography from the Association of American Geographers (AAG). In 2011, she received a Distinguished Scholarship Honors award from the Association of American Geographers (AAG). Her research addresses health, social, transportation, economic, and environmental issues in urban areas through the application of innovative geographic information system (GIS) methods. Her work focuses on health geographies, time-geographic analysis of mobility and accessibility, urban travel and sustainable transportation, space-time patterns of human behavior, information and communication technologies, geocomputation and geovisualization methods, and qualitative and critical GIS.
Prof. Che Kwan Shum
Professor & Distinguished University Scholar
Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences
The Ohio State University
United States
Keynote Speech Title: Global Sea-Level Rise: Observations and Geophysical Causes
C.K. Shum is a Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, at the Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Fellow of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). He was a Lead Author in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1 Fourth Assessment Report. This work contributed to the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC study authors and Al Gore, Jr. The IPCC AR4 contributors received the Atmospheric Science Librarians International's High Impact Comprehensive Publication Award in 2007. He is the 2012 laureate of the Vening Meinesz Medal, awarded by the European Geosciences Union for his distinguished research in Geodesy. He and his research group focus on contemporary scientific research relates to the accurate measurements of 20th century and present-day sea-level rise, and the improved understanding of the geophysical causes of the rise, including anthropogenic climate-change. He studies the geophysical processes contributing to sea-level rise which include ice-sheet mass balance, solid Earth viscoelastic glacial isostatic adjustment resulting from ancient ice-sheet melt, thermal expansion of the ocean and ocean circulations, mountain glacier ablation, and terrestrial hydrology. He has published over 180-refereed journal articles and book chapters. His work was covered by CNN, New York Times, Physics Today, Sky & Telescope Radio Show, Discover Magazine, Discoveries and Breakthroughs Inside Science TV, Science News, Science Daily, Scientific American, NASA, Soundings magazine, Deccan Chronicle, La Figaro, MSNBC.com, NBC, Tomorrow Focus Portal GmbH, Axel Springer AG, Televisión Española, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich, Columbus Dispatch, and other news organizations.
Prof. Peng Gong
Professor
Environmental Science Policy and Management
University of California, Berkeley
United States
Keynote Speech Title: New Mapping and Analysis Tools for Global Change Studies
Peng Gong received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Nanjing University, China, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1990. He is presently a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley. He was the Advisor to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in 2004–2006, the Founding Director of the International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, between 2000 and 2007 and the Founding Director of the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, jointly sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Beijing Normal University, China, between 2004 and 2010. He became the Director of the Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2010. He has authored/coauthored over 400 publications including more than 270 journal articles in the field of remote sensing, geography, and environmental science and seven books. His present interest is environmental remote sensing and global environmental change and health. Prof. Gong received a number of honors and awards including the outstanding contribution award in remote sensing from the Association of American Geographers in 2008 and the Talbert Abrams Grand Award from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 1994.
Prof. Gennady L. Andrienko
Scientist
Fraunhofer Institute IAIS
University of Bonn
Co-Chair
Commission on GeoVisualization,
International Cartographic Association
Keynote Speech Title: Visual Analytics of Movement
Dr. Gennady Andrienko is a research fellow at Fraunhofer IAIS. Gennady Andrienko (together with Natalia Ansrienko, Piotr Jankowski and Alan MacEachren) co-edited a special issue on "GeoVisual Analytics for Spatial Decision Support" and (together with Natalia Andrienko, Jason Dykes, Sara Irina Fabrikant and Monica Wachowicz) a special issue on "Geovisualization of Dynamics, Movement and Change"