Prof. Qiyu Chen is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Director of the Department of Computer Applications at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). He is also a Member of the Visualization and Visual Analysis Committee of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics and the Digital Energy Committee of the Chinese National Committee of the International Society for Digital Earth. He received his BS in Information Security (2012) and his PhD in Geoinformatics Engineering (2018) from the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). From December 2016 to December 2017, he worked as a Joint Doctoral Student at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland on Geospatial Modeling. He was selected as a Reserve Young Scientific and Technological Talent (Geological Prospecting) of the Ministry of Natural Resources (2024). He is mainly engaged in research on multi-point geostatistics, intelligent geological characterization simulation, big earth data, geoscience information visualization and visual analysis, etc.