Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Lixin Wu is a distinguished Chinese surveying and mapping scientist whose research and professional work have focused on mine surveying, geospatial information, digital mining, and geological hazard sensing and prediction. Born in November 1966 in Yichun, Jiangxi Province, he received his bachelor’s degree in mine surveying from the China Institute of Mining and Technology in 1988 and his master’s and doctoral degrees in geodesy and surveying engineering from China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing, in 1991 and 1997, respectively. He began his academic career at China University of Mining and Technology and subsequently held academic and research positions at Northeastern University and Beijing Normal University. Since 2016, he has served as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Central South University, where he is Academic Leader of Surveying and Mapping Science and Technology and Vice Chairman of the University Academic Committee. He has been selected as a Cheung Kong Scholar Distinguished Professor and received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and the National Award for One Hundred Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations. He has also served as Convener of the Surveying and Mapping (Remote Sensing) Discipline Appraisal Committee of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, as an expert in international disaster-risk and Earth-observation programmes, and as Editor-in-Chief of Geography and Geo-Information Science. His academic career has encompassed mine surveying, geospatial information science, digital mining, and disaster remote sensing.