Dr. Min Yang received his B.S. and Ph.D. in cartography from Wuhan University in 2007 and 2013, respectively, where he is currently a Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Sciences. He serves as Secretary-General of the Employment Guidance Working Committee of the China Geographic Information Industry Association and a member of the Intelligent Surveying and Mapping Working Committee of the China Society for Surveying and Mapping. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Geography at the University of Kansas from 2016 to 2017. His research interests include change detection of spatial data, map generalization, and spatial big data analysis.