Qihao Weng

Plenary Talk Title:

Next-Generation GeoAI and Urban Remote Sensing: Unifying Visual-Spatial Intelligence and Urban AI Security for Sustainable Cities

Short Biography: Prof. Weng is a Chair Professor of Geomatics and Artificial Intelligence and a Global STEM Scholar at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where he directs the Jockey Club STEM Lab of Earth Observations and the Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Geomatics. Previously, he served as Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Change and as a Professor of Geography at Indiana State University in the USA from 2001 to 2021. He currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and leads GEO’s Global Urban Observation and Information Initiative. Prof. Weng is a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) and an elected Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, AAG, ISPRS, and ASPRS. His distinguished career has been recognized with numerous awards, including the NASA Senior Fellowship, the AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors Award, the Taylor & Francis Lifetime Achievements Award, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (Short-term S[E], formerly known as the “JSPS Award for Eminent Scientists”), the AAG Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research, and the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021, he was awarded a Global STEM Professorship by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government. Prof. Weng’s research focuses on remote sensing and geospatial AI applications to urban environmental and ecological systems, urbanization impacts, urban climate, and sustainability. He is the author of 340 articles, 16 books, and five conference proceedings, with over 43,500 citations and an H-index of 96 on Google Scholar.

Keywords: GeoAI, Urban Remote Sensing, Visual-Spatial Intelligence, Urban AI Security