Luo Chen is a professor of Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing at the National University of Defense Technology since 2010. He received his bachelor degree in Signal and Information Processing from the National University of Defense Technology, and Ph.D in Information and Communication Engineering at the same university in 2005. His research interests include geo-computation methods, spatial analysis and modeling, geospatial information processing and systems(GIS), high-performance parallel and distributed computing, computational and spatial data science. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, and the China Computer Federation (CCF).