Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2018, Professor Yaolin Liu is a distinguished Chinese geographic information scientist whose research and professional work have focused on geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis, and geospatial applications. Born in September 1960 in Huanggang, Hubei Province, he received his B.S. in Geography from China University of Geosciences in 1982 and his M.S. in Remote Sensing from the same university in 1988, during which year he also undertook advanced studies at the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) in the Netherlands. He was selected as a trans-century talent by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping in 1995 and by the State Land Administration in 1996, and conducted senior visiting scholar research at Wageningen University in the Netherlands in 1996. In 1997, he was selected as a national-level candidate of the National Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project and, in 2002, of the Ministry of Education Trans-Century Talent Project, the same year in which he received his Ph.D. in Geo-Information Science from Wageningen University. He subsequently served as Senior Research Fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2004 and was selected as a National Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology Leading Talent in December 2012. He currently serves as Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, and President of Duke Kunshan University.