Prof. Dr. Nengcheng Chen received a B.Eng. degree in surveying and geomatics engineering and an M.Eng. degree in geospatial information engineering from the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying and Mapping in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree in geospatial information engineering from Wuhan University in 2003. From 2004 to 2008, he was an Associate Professor, and from 2008 to 2021, he was a Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping, and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University. Since 2021, he has been the Director of the National Engineering Research Center of Geographic Information Systems and the Vice President of the School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). His research interests include digital twins, an Earth observation sensor web, spatiotemporal big data intelligence, geographic simulation decisions, smart cities, and smart watersheds. He has won the American Science and Technology R&D Innovation Award, the National Science and Technology Progress Innovation Team Award, and the National Science and Technology Progress Second Prize. He is also a director of the China Geographic Information Industry Association, a standing committee member of the Human-Machine Fusion Intelligence Committee of the China Artificial Intelligence Association, and deputy secretary-general of the China Smart City Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance.