Research Seminars

Research Seminar Series

Date	Topic	Speaker
6 May 2026	The Effects of Ancient Astronomy on the History of Human Development	Prof. Sun KWOK Honorary Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Canada
9 Mar 2026	Modelling the Earth's Gravitational Field at all Scales (Cancelled)	Prof. Pavel NOVÁK Professor of Geodesy, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic
25 Feb 2026	Overview of Numerical Weather Prediction and Data Assimilation	Prof. Seon Ki PARK Seoul National University
25 Feb 2026	Shift of Earth’s Spin Axis Driven by Terrestrial Water Storage Changes	Prof. Ki-Weon SEO Professor, Seoul National University
27 Jan 2026	Advancing 3D Remote Sensing Inversion: Gradient-Based and Differentiable Radiative Transfer Models for Retrieving Optical, Thermal, and Biochemical Properties	Prof. Zhijun ZHEN Associate Professor, Geographic Information Systems, Jilin University, China
12 Dec 2025	Evaluating Disease Risk Under Climate Change Using GIS, Remotely Sensed Data and Mathematical Modeling – A Case Study of Lyme Disease in Ontario, Canada	Prof. Dongmei CHEN Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University, Canada
26 Nov 2025	A Framework for Integrating Space, Place, and Human in GIScience	Prof. Shih-Lung SHAW Chancellor’s Professor & Alvin and Sally Beaman Professor, Department of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee
11 Nov 2025	Sea-Level Science in Southeast Asia	Prof. Benjamin P. HORTON Dean of the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong
7 Nov 2025	Offshore Surveying – What’s It All About?	Mr. Gordon JOHNSTON Director at Venture Geomatics & Member of RICS Governing Council (Land & Natural Resources)
31 Oct 2025	Uncovering Hidden Instabilities: InSAR Observations of Human-Induced Ground Deformation in Permian Basin, USA	Prof. Zhong LU Professor, School of Environment and Spatial Informatics, China University of Mining and Technology
30 Oct 2025	GGE Remote: Challenges and Opportunities	Dr. Robert KINGDON Associate Teaching Professor and Chair of the Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Department, University of New Brunswick, Canada
23 Oct 2025	Blue Health Watch: Remote Sensing for Monitoring Water Quality and Climate-Sensitive Disease Risks	Prof. Kalum UDAGEPOLA Professor and Senior Principal Research Fellow, Scientific Research Development Institute of Technology Australia
22 Oct 2025	AI for Infrastructure and Built Environment Inspection Tasks	Prof. Jan Boehm Professor of Photogrammetry and 3D Imaging, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom
3 Oct 2025	Has track prediction reached its predictability limit for landfalling tropical cyclones?	Prof. Johnny CHAN Chair of the International Science Steering Committee, Asia-Pacific Typhoon Collaborative Research Center, Emeritus Professor at City University of Hong Kong
30 Sep 2025	Flood-Risk Reduction for Coastal Cities	Dr Paul CHAN Former director, Goddard Earth Science Data Center, Former visiting scientist, Sun Yat-sen University and Chapman University
18 Sep 2025	Revisiting climate change risks through the lens of compound extremes	Dr Yang CHEN Professor, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, PR China
7 Aug 2025	Applications of Machine Learning in Climate Change and Environmental Modeling	Dr Zhong LI Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
21 Jul 2025	Increasing the Visibility of the Geosciences: Some Ideas from a Geodesy Perspective	Prof. Chris RIZOS Professor Emeritus, University of New South Wales, Australia
17 Jun 2025	Forecasting Societal Disruptions from Social Media Time Series: Models, Systems, and Insights	Prof. Chang-Tien LU Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
10 Jun 2025	LiDAR and Autonomous Vehicles: North America Market Update in 2025	Dr Wai Yeung YAN Adjunct Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
6 May 2025	Practical Methods for GPU-Based Map Rendering	Prof. Yongning WEN Professor, Department of Geographic Information Science, Nanjing Normal University, PR China
24 Apr 2025	Integrated Navigation Technologies: State of the Art and Future Trends	Dr Naser EL-SHEIMY Professor, Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
17 Apr 2025	From Land Information Networks to Digital Earth: Evolving Technologies and Changing Expectations	Prof. David COLEMAN Professor Emeritus, University of New Brunswick, Canada
20 Mar 2025	AI for Climate-Environment Prediction and Modeling	Prof. Jungho Im Professor, Department of Civil Urban Earth and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
27 Feb 2025	Integrated Regional Climate/Weather/Environment Prediction: Opti-Parameterizations and Coupled Data Assimilation	Prof. Seon Ki PARK Professor, Department of Climate and Energy Systems Engineering, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
24 Feb 2025	AI Meets Geography: Embedding Spatial Intelligence into Vision-Language Models	Dr. Meiliu WU Lecturer, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK
20 Jan 2025	基於互聯網的智慧遙感衛星服務系統及東方慧眼星座規劃	王密教授武漢⼤學
19 Dec 2024	Adaptive Decision-making of Autonomous Driving Vehicles for Smart Cities	Prof. Jinjun SHAN Professor, York University, Canada
11 Dec 2024	Rivers in the Sky: A Down-to-Earth Analogy in Hydrometeorology	Dr. Ruping MO Manager and Senior Research Scientist, Environment and Climate Change Canada
6 Dec 2024	Semantic Urban Modeling for Digital Twins	Prof. Bisheng YANG Professor in Geomatics Engineering, Director of LIESMARS, Wuhan University
4 Dec 2024	Integration of spatialization and individualization: the future of epidemic modeling for communicable diseases	Prof. Xun SHI Chair of Geography Department, Dartmouth College, USA
2 Dec 2024	Directional Reflectance Modeling of Remote Sensing Signals	Prof. Guangjian YAN State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing science, Beijing Normal University, PR China
2 Dec 2024	Mapping leaf age structure in tropical moist forests	Prof. Xiuzhi CHEN Distinguished Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University, PR China
29 Nov 2024	GNSS Remote Sensing for Neutral Atmosphere, any challenges left?	Prof. Witold ROHM Head of Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Poland
17 Oct 2024	UWB Measurement, Transmission, and Sensing Integrated Technology for Multi-UxV Collaboration	Prof. Mingquan LU Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, PR China
27 Sep 2024	Recurrent Planetesimal Formation in the Carbonaceous Reservoir of the Early Solar System	Dr. Wladimir Neumann Planetary scientist at Technical University Berlin
20 Sep 2024	Laser Altimetry for Earth and Planetary Mapping	Prof. Huan XIE Professor and Dean College of Surveying and Geo-Information Tongji University, PR China
13 Sep 2024	Unlocking Space and Time: From SpaceTime Analytics to Generative GeoAI for Urban Transformation	Prof. Tao CHEUNG SpaceTimeLab, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL
30 Aug 2024	What's Cadastral Surveying? Can Al Help Tackle Its Challenges?	Sr Ben CHAN Siu-bun Adjunct Professor, Research Institute of Land and Space, PolyU Sr LEE Yiu-hing Senior Land Surveyor, Lands Department, HKSAR Sr Winnie WONG Wing-yin Land Surveyor, Lands Department, HKSAR Sr Ida CHEUNG Kai-ling Land Surveyor, Lands Department, HKSAR
12 Aug 2024	Global Public Sentiment on Decentralized Finance: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Geo-tagged Tweets from 150 Countries	Dr. Luyao ZHANG Assistant Professor of Economics and Senior Research Scientist at the Data Science Research Center at Duke Kunshan University, China
09 Aug 2024	Learning to Simulate and Understand the 3D World	Prof. Xiaojuan Qi Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong
23 July 2024	Earth Observation Images and Intelligent Methods in Developing Building Footprint Inventories: A Sustainable City Planning Lens	Dr. Jagannath Aryal Associate Professor, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne
12 July 2024	Coastal Blue Carbon in China: Nature-based Solution towards Carbon Neutrality	Prof. Faming Wang Professor, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences
04 July 2024	Advancing Precision GNSS for Mass-market Applications	Dr. Yang GAO Professor, Department of Geomatics Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
28 Jun 2024	Drone and AI Driven High-performance Digitization and Management of Smart Sustainable Cities	Dr Xi CHEN Research Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
26 Jun 2024	GeoAI and Sustainable Urban Environment	Prof. Jue WANG Assistant Professor, Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto, Canada
20 Jun 2024	Multi-proxy approaches toward a long view of past coastal disasters	Prof. Adam SWITZER Professor of Asian School of The Environment, Principal Investigator of Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
29 May 2024	北斗賦能萬物互聯，助推新質生產力發展 -- 從PNT到PNTRC	李德仁院士中國科學院院士、中國工程院院士
22 May 2024	Groundwater Quality Modeling and Assessment	Dr Zhilin GUO Assistant Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen
20 May 2024	Global Terrestrial Relief Modeling: Challenges and Quality Issues	Prof. Laurent POLIDORI President of ISPRS Commission III “Remote Sensing”
13 May 2024	The Nexus between Climate, Nature and People	Ms Karen Ho Head of Corporate and Community Sustainability, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Hong Kong
10 May 2024	Modelling of mass and energy transport in a porous medium: Application to the small bodies of the solar system	Dr Yuri SKOROV Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research University of Braunschweig, Germany
3 May 2024	A Crowdsourcing Approach to Generate 3D Building Models	Prof. Dr. Hongchao FAN Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
29 Apr 2024	General Indoor Positioning based on Crowd-Sourced Magnetic Feature Mapping	Dr Xiaoji NIU Professor, GNSS Research Center, Wuhan University
25 Apr 2024	衛星重力國內外計劃與科學應用進展	鍾敏教授中⼭⼤學，測繪科學與技術學院
18 Mar 2024	Glacial Isostatic Adjustment and Sea-level Change in Singapore and Southeast Asia: Implications from Past to Future	Dr Tanghua LI Earth Observatory of Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
18 Mar 2024	Investigating Holocene Relative Sea-level Changes in the Tropics	Dr Fangyi TAN Earth Observatory of Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
15 Mar 2024	Mapping under LLM: Two Hierarchical Solutions	Prof. Tinghua AI Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University
14 Mar 2024	月球重力場	李斐教授武漢大學，中國南極測繪研究中心
11 Mar 2024	Research on the Development of BeiDou High Precision Positioning Navigation and Timing Service	Prof. Chuang SHI Chief Professor of Navigation Department, School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University
23 Jan 2024	Altimeter Methods for Interdisciplinary Satellite Geodesy	Prof. C K SHUM Professor and Distinguished University Scholar, Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, United States
21 Dec 2023	Space Resources Exploitation and Utilization - A Geodetic Perspective	Prof. Kefei Zhang Professor of China University of Mining and Technology Honorary Professor of RMIT University, Australia
11 Dec 2023	Remote sensing of atmospheric composition: aerosol, nitrogen oxide and methane	Prof. Kai QIN Head of Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, China University of Mining and Technology
7 Dec 2023	The Future of Digital Twin Technology in Smart Cities Development in China	Dr Tao HE Executive Director, Shenzhen Aerospace Smart City System Technology Co., Ltd.
1 Dec 2023	時空基準發展的現狀、挑戰與相關問題思考	孫和平教授中國科學院院士
7 Nov 2023	Four Cases of Flood-risk Reduction in Coastal Cities	Dr Paul Chan CIO (retired), U.S. National Weather Service
11 Oct 2023	Structure and Function of Hypergraph Based High-order Networks	Prof. Zi-Ke ZHANG Professor, College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University
6 Oct 2023	The Evolution of GIS and Examples of a Sino-Austrian Cooperation	Prof. Wolfgang KAINZ Professor, University of Vienna
6 Oct 2023	Is Trade Decoupling from China after the US-China Trade War and COVID-19?	Dr Wei LIU Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
27 Sep 2023	The Story of Groundwater: Think Globally, Act Locally	Prof. Yan ZHENG Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology
15 Sep 2023	Achieving Water Security in the Context of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus	Prof. Ximing CAI Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11 Sep 2023	Advancements in BeiDou Disaster Monitoring and Early Warning Technology through UAV-Deployed Equipment	Prof. Zhang Qin Professor, Chang'an University
31 Aug 2023	Human-Environmental Interaction - Using Crowdsourcing Human and Earth Observation Data to Quantify Tri-environments (Social, Built and Natural Environment)	Dr Siqin Sisi WANG Associate Professor, University of Southern California, US
7 Aug 2023	Human-Oriented Geospatial Data Analytics	Prof. Xiaobai Angela YAO Professor of Geography, The University of Georgia
7 Jun 2023	3D Scene Modeling in a Geo-Environment	Dr Rongjun Qin Associate Professor, The Ohio State University
19 May 2023	Network and Graph based SpaceTimeAI for Smart Cities	Prof. Tao CHENG Professor, University College London
15 May 2023	Data science for intelligent operations of air transport systems	Dr Lishuai LI Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
23 Mar 2023	Discovering Social Conflicts based on Social Media Data	Prof. Wei Huang Professor, Tongji University
16 Mar 2023	Self-calibration of Terrestrial Laser Scanner using a M3C2-based Planar Patch Algorithm	Dr. Jing Qiao Assistant Professor, Tongji University
7 Feb 2023	Photogrammetric Computer Vision	Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Heipke Professor, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
21 Jan 2023	2023 Atmospheric and Coastal Observations for Weather Servicing (2023 ACOWS)	Prof. Hui Su Global STEM Professor, HKUST Mr. P. W. Chan Assistant Director, Hong Kong Observatory Mr. Shiwei Yu, Mr. Yangzhao Gong, Mr. Jiafei Xu PhD students, PolyU
10 Jan 2023	GNSS Tropospheric Sounding - The Way Forward	Prof. Kefei Zhang Professor of China University of Mining and Technology Honorary Professor of RMIT University, Australia
12 Dec 2022	From the 2021 Henan flooding to 2022 summer heatwaves: influence of global warming on extreme weather and climate	Dr. Xuebin Zhang Senior Research Scientist with Climate Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada
2 Dec 2022	The Role of Scientific Open-Source Tools in Supporting Open Science	Professor Antonis Giannopoulos Chair of Applied Geophysics and Computational Electrodynamics, The University of Edinburgh, UK
22 Nov 2022	Carbon Emission Accounts and Low-carbon Development	Dr. Yuli SHAN Associate Professor, University of Birmingham, UK
17 Oct 2022	Towards Deep Visual Scene Understanding	Dr. Michael Ying YANG Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands
12 Oct 2022	Citizens on the Map	Prof. Tuong-Thuy Vu Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Science, Curtin University Malaysia
5 Oct 2022	History of Climate and Society: Exploring the archives of societies in China	Dr. Qing PEI Associate Head, Department of Social Sciences, Education University of Hong Kong
30 Sep 2022	When GIS meets COVID 19: digital health geography at the national and global level	Dr. Siqin WANG, Sisi Research Fellow, Japan Society of Promotion of Sciences (JSPS)
28 Sep 2022	Regional integration in the Horn of Africa: An inter city connectivity perspective	Dr. Mingshu WANG Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), University of Glasgow, UK
23 Sep 2022	Crowdsourcing Geospatial Data in Urban Sciences: Progress and Challenges	Dr. Xiao HUANG Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas, US
16 Sep 2022	Urban Cellular Automata Modelling: Applications, Challenges and Future Research	Professor Yan LIU Professor, The University of Queensland, Australia
2 Sep 2022	Geodetic and Remote Sensing Observations of Thawing Permafrost	Dr. Lin LIU Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
29 Jul 2022	A computational geography approach to understanding human-urban environment interactions	Dr. Junjun YIN Assistant Research Professor, Pennsylvania State University, United States