International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Lun WU

Profile:

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Lun Wu is a distinguished Chinese geographic information scientist whose research and professional work have focused on geographic information systems (GIS), spatial information infrastructure, smart cities, and digitalisation. Born in July 1964 in Changsha, Hunan Province, he received his bachelor’s degree in geology and doctorate in physical geography and remote sensing from Peking University in 1984 and 1990, respectively, followed by postdoctoral research in applied mathematics and information science from 1991 to 1992. He has pursued his academic career at Peking University, where he established a GIS teaching and research section in 1992 and founded China’s first undergraduate programme in geographic information science in 1997. He subsequently served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems and Executive Vice President of the PKU Institute of Digital China, and currently serves as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Institute. He is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Remote Sensing and Geography and Geo-Information Science, Executive Vice Chairman of the GIS Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, and an information technology expert for government agencies and international organisations including the United Nations Development Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Bank. His professional career has encompassed GIS research and software development, higher education, smart-city planning, and digitalisation strategy.

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Professor Wu’s research has centred on GIS theory, software, and applications, with particular emphasis on spatial data modelling, 3S integration, spatial information uncertainty, and social sensing. As principal investigator of a national key project on domestic GIS platform development, he led the development of CityStar, an early Chinese GIS platform, and contributed to the development of indigenous GIS software and digital-city technologies. He has led more than twenty national science and technology projects and participated in digital-city and smart-city planning for cities including Beijing and Shenzhen, as well as national informatisation programmes such as Digital Land. His research group introduced the concept of social sensing and developed approaches for analysing spatiotemporal human behaviour and interactions from large-scale data, complementing remote sensing by incorporating information on human activities into spatial analysis and urban management. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and fifteen monographs and holds more than thirty patents and software copyrights, in addition to receiving numerous ministerial- and provincial-level science and technology awards. Through sustained research, software development, and engagement with urban planning and public-sector applications, Professor Wu has contributed to connecting geographic information science with smart-city development and to the development of China’s spatial information industry and digitalisation.