Profile

Yuanzheng Shao received the Ph.D. degree in cartography and geographic information system from Wuhan University, China, in 2011. He joined the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems, George Mason University as a research assistant professor from 2011 to 2014. He is currently an associate professor in the Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan University, from 2014. He also joined the Geocomputation Center for Social Sciences (GCSS) as the assistant dean from 2018 to present.
His research interests include remote sensing data and information sharing, geospatial web services, geospatial cloud computing, remote sensing applications in agriculture, and standardization of geographical information. He has published more than 30 articles and conference proceedings in the field of geographic information and remote sensing. As the project leader, he published one international geographic information standard (ISO/TC 19163-2) and two national standards. He also participated in the formulation of over ten national and industry standards.

Educational Experience

• [1]2006.9-2011.12

  Wuhan University  | Cartography and Geographic Information Engineering  | Doctoral degree | With Certificate of Graduation for Doctorate Study

• [2]2002.9-2006.6

  Xi'an University of Science and Technology  | Geographic Information System  | Bachelor's degree | Undergraduate (Bachelor's degree)

Work Experience

• [1] 2014.4-Now
  

  Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology  | Associate Research Professor
  

• [2] 2008.10-2014.3
  

  George Mason University, USA  | Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems  | Research Assistant Professor
  

Social Affiliations

• [1]2024.12-Now

  国家对地观测科学数据中心商业航天专业委员会委员

• [2]2024.5-Now

  中国遥感应用协会社会遥感地理计算专业委员副秘书长

• [3]2024.6-Now

  国际数字地球学会中国国家委员会空间信息产业化专业委员会副主任委员

• [4]2020.11-Now

  National Earth Observation Scientific Data Center
  Sub-Center of Social Economy

• [5]2014.1-Now

  Member of the expert group, Geographic information/Geomatics, International Organization for Standardization

• [6]2012.1-2019.1

  Technical member of the IEEE International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium

• [7]2010.1-2016.12

  Working group of the metadata service standards, Open Geospatial Consortium

• [8]2012.1-2015.12

  Technical member of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems