Prof. Jonathan Li

Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Canada
Email: junli@uwaterloo.ca

Resume:

  Jonathan Li is a full professor of geospatial data science at the Department of Geography and environmental management and a professor of artificial intelligence cross-appointed at the Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo. His research interests are in urban remote sensing and geospatial data science, especially in automated extraction of geometric and semantic information from earth observation images and LiDAR point clouds using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. His recent research focuses on the use of the inhomogeneous and unstructured point clouds acquired by LiDAR and photogrammetry to generate high-definite (HD) maps and digital terrain models to support the development in digital twin cities and autonomous vehicles. He is elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Academy of Science, the Canadian Academy of Canada (CAE), and the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), respectively. He is currently elected President of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation (JAG), Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS) and the Editorial Board member of the Elsevier’s journal of Geomatica.