CPGIS Awards 2022 Announced

During the International Conference on Geoinformatics 2022, we announced this year's CPGIS awards' recipients


Distinguished Scholar Award in 2022
Dr. A-Xing Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Young Scholar Award in 2022
Dr. Chunyuan Diao,  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Yang Xu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University


Service Excellence Award in 2022
Dr. Xiang Ye, Shenzhen University

Innovation Award in 2022
Dr. Qiusheng Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Best Student Paper Awards in 2022
First Place: Yang Zhong (Claremont Graduate University) Title: Optimal billboard location selection using social media context
Second Place: Sheng Hu (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan; National University of Singapore) Title: Revealing intra-urban spatial structure through an exploratory analysis by combining road network abstraction model and taxi trajectory data
Third Place: Yali Bai (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) Title: Counting maize tassels from field RGB image by a three-step method
Third Place (tied): Anni Wang (Wuhan University) Title: Automatic building extraction based on boundary detection network in satellite images


(Professor Anrong Dang, Tsinghua University)


(CPGIS Awards Committee Chair, Professor Yu Liu, Peking University)


(Dr. Xiang Ye, Shenzhen University)


(Dr. A-Xing Zhu, Dr. Qiusheng Wu, Dr. Chunyuan Diao, Dr. Yang Xu)


(CPGIS Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship Committee Chair, Dr. Chuang Tao, Founder and Chairman of Wayz.ai)

Congratulations to all the CPGIS award recipients of 2022!