Weng is a Full Professor of Geography and Center Director at Indiana State University, USA. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief of ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Lead of GEO’s Global Urban Observation and Information Initiative. Dr. Weng is an elected Fellow of IEEE, AAAS and ASPRS. He has been honored with distinguished career awards that include NASA senior fellowship, AAG Distinguished Scholarship Honors Award, Taylor & Francis Lifetime Achievements Award, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Short-term S[E]) Fellowship. He is the author of 240 articles and 14 books, with over 19,700 citations and H-index of 64.