Speakers of ERSGIT 2024

Prof. Zhongfa Zhou

Guizhou Normal University

 (Level II Professor, Core Expert in Guizhou Province, Dean of the School of Geography and Environmental Science and Dean of the Karst Research Institute)

He is the head of the National Engineering Technology Research Center for Karst Rocky Desertification Prevention and Control, co-director of the Field Scientific Observation Research Station affiliated with the Ministry of Natural Resources, director of the Cultivation Base of the National Key Laboratory for Karst Mountain Ecological Environment, and director of the Guizhou Branch of the National Remote Sensing Center. He is also the leader of the Guizhou Normal University's Geography Teacher Team, which is one of the first "National Model Teacher Teams in the Style of Huang Danian," and was recognized as an advanced worker in the national education system in 2024. Additionally, he serves as the head of the National First-Class Undergraduate Program in "Geographic Science" and the National First-Class Course in "Physical Geography." He has been awarded the provincial "Top-Level Innovative Talent," provincial excellent master's supervisor, and one of the first "Golden Teachers" in ordinary universities in the province. He is an expert at the Guizhou Rural Revitalization Research Center and an outstanding Communist Party member in the province's poverty alleviation efforts. Named as a representative of the "New Era of Guizhou" in 2023, he is the leading figure for the Second-Class National Teaching Achievement Award in Higher Education (Graduate Level) in 2022, and he won the Second Prize in the Second National College Teaching Innovation Competition. His research and teaching achievements have received more than ten awards at the provincial and ministerial levels. He has made significant contributions in areas such as the protection of karst ecological environments, the construction of ecological civilization, zoning functions and land use planning, geographic information systems and remote sensing, the effective transition from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization, resettlement for poverty alleviation, and geography education.

Speech Title：Ecological Environment of Karst Mountain Areas and the Application of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI)

Prof. Bin Zou

Central South University

(Young Changjiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, Chair of the Air Quality and Health Working Group of the International Society for Atmospheric Environment Remote Sensing, Deputy Director of the Education Working Committee of the Chinese Society for Surveying and Mapping, Deputy Director of the Environmental Exposure Committee of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, and Vice President of the Hunan Province Society for Surveying and Geoinformatic)

Bin Zou, Young Chang Jiang Scholar, director of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Central South University, has been mainly engaging in remote sensing monitoring of resources and environment and simulation of geographical spatio-temporal processes. He has promoted the transformation of environmental investigation and monitoring, risk early warning management to the direction of “refinement, intelligence and efficiency”, and also facilitated the innovative development of multi-disciplinary integration of surveying and mapping geographic information. As the chairman of the Working Group of Atmospheric Quality and Health of the Atmospheric Environmental Remote Sensing Society(AERSS), the deputy director of Education Committee of the Chinese Society for Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography, the deputy director of the Hunan Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Society, and editors of 5 domestic and foreign academic journals, he has won the honorary titles of National Huang Danian Style Teacher Team in universities, Excellent Teacher awarded by Baosteel, Innovative Talent of College GIS Forum Award, Remote Sensing Young Scientific and Technological Innovation Talent awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, etc. Bin Zou has presided over more than 30 projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, published more than 100 SCI papers, won more than 30 national invention patents, 6 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards and 7 national and provincial teaching achievement awards.

Prof. Baozhang Chen

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Professor Chen Baozhang is a researcher at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he also supervises doctoral students. He has previously held positions as a collaborative researcher at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia in Canada, as well as a professorship at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. In 2009, he was selected to return to China under the Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Hundred Talents Program" for outstanding researchers.

Professor Chen has long been dedicated to Environmental Remote Sensing，the development and optimization of surface Earth system models, data-model assimilation, research on carbon cycle and climate change interactions, and studies on spatial scale transfer technologies. His efforts have continually pushed the boundaries of academic research, leading to significant original achievements. He has led and completed over ten research projects, including those funded by Canada’s NSERC, CFCAS, China’s National Natural Science Foundation (general and key projects), as well as national major projects such as the 973, 863 Programs, major technological support projects, and key R&D programs.

He has published 126 SCI papers in journals like Nature Communications and Science Bulletin, holds six authorized national invention patents as the lead inventor, and has received numerous awards, including the Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Natural Resources (2024, ranked first), the Second Prize for Technological Advancement in Environmental Protection (2019, ranked sixth), the 3rd China Youth Geoscience Award (1995), the IET Award for Outstanding Graduate Students from the International Engineering Society, and Canada’s NSERC CGS Scholarship, among over 20 academic honors.

Speech Title：Prototype of China’s Multi-Scale Integrated Digital Twin Simulator for Dual-Carbon Goals