Sun Jie, male, received his Ph.D. in Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from Wuhan University. He is currently an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at the School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), and has been a visiting scholar at George Mason University, USA. He is also a member of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. His research mainly focuses on intelligent processing and applications of LiDAR data for island and reef information extraction. As a principal investigator, he has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has received multiple First Prizes for scientific papers in the National College Students Surveying and Mapping Skills Competition.