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Qihao Weng, a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) and a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE, AAG, ASPRS and AAIA, is a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He worked as the Director of the Center for Urban and Environmental Change and a Professor of Geography at Indiana State University from 2001 to 2021, and as a Senior Fellow at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Dec 2008 to Dec 2009. He received his Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Georgia in 1999. Weng is currently the Lead of the Group on Earth Observation’s (GEO) Global Urban Observation and Information Initiative, and serves as an Editor-in-Chief of the ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Additionally, he works as the Series Editor of Taylor & Francis Series in Remote Sensing Applications and Taylor & Francis Series in Imaging Science. Weng has been the Organizer and Program Committee Chair of the biennial IEEE/ISPRS/GEO-sponsored International Workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Applications conference series since 2008, a National Director of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) from 2007 to 2010, and a panelist of U.S. DOE’s Cool Roofs Roadmap and Strategy committee in 2010.
In 2008, Weng received a prestigious NASA senior fellowship. He received the Outstanding Contributions Award in Remote Sensing in 2011, the AAG E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award in 2015, the 2020 AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors Award, Lifetime Achievement in Remote Sensing Award, and the 2024 Wilbanks Price for Transformational Research in Geography, all from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Furthermore, in 2019, he was given a Taylor & Francis Lifetime Achievements Award, and a fellowship from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under the “JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan” (Short-term S [E], formerly known as “JSPS Award for Eminent Scientists”). In 2021, Weng was awarded a Global STEM Professorship by the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. At Indiana State University, he was selected as a Lilly Foundation Faculty Fellow in 2015. In the following year, he also received the Theodore Dreiser Distinguished Research Award. Additionally, Weng was the recipient of 2010 Erdas Award for Best Scientific Paper in Remote Sensing (1st place) and the 1999 Robert E. Altenhofen Memorial Scholarship Award, which were both awarded by the ASPRS. He was also awarded the Best Student-Authored Paper Award by the International Geographic Information Foundation in 1998. Weng has been invited to give more than 140 talks by worldwide organizations and conferences and is honored with a visiting professorship in a dozen of universities in Japan, France, and China. Weng was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2018, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2019, the ASPRS in 2020, the AAG and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) in 2021. He is an elected Foreign Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in 2021.
Weng’s research focuses on remote sensing applications to urban environmental and ecological systems, land-use and land-cover changes, urbanization impacts, urban sustainability, environmental modeling, and human-environment interactions. Through the serial invention of innovative techniques, methods, and theories, Weng’s research efforts have fostered growth in the geographical and environmental applications of the science and technology of remote sensing. Moreover, his research has bridged methodological gaps between geography, landscape ecology, and environmental science, uniting these related fields to design holistic solutions to many environmental, ecological, and climatic issues. Throughout his research career, Weng has authored 340 articles (journal articles, chapters, etc.) and 16 books. According to Google Scholar, as of April 2026, his works have been cited more than 42,000 times with an H-index of 94. Weng’s research has been supported by funding agencies including the NSF, NASA, USGS, USAID, NOAA, National Geographic Society, Microsoft, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Jockey Club Charities Trust, and the Otto Poon Charity Foundation.
