Qianwei Cheng is a researcher for the Center for Spatial Information Science, at The University of Tokyo, and a visiting lecturer at Macao University of Science and Technology. Moreover, he is also a full member of the Japanese Architectural Society. He received two bachelor's degrees: one in economics from the Central University of Finance and Economics and the other in architecture from the Nihon University. He received a master's degree in Environmental Science from the University of Tokyo in 2019. His current research interest is mapping based on remote sensing images to analyze the classification of settlement patterns and urban morphology and the distribution characteristics and change detection of slums. Moreover, he takes the slums in Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and Africa as research and practice objects and takes environmental science as the starting point to explore a new human habitat environment.