Zhong Shaobo was born in 1978 in Hubei, China. He received his Ph.D. in cartography and GIS from the Institute of Remote Sensing Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. From 2006 until the end of 2018, he worked as an educator and researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He is currently an associate researcher at Beijing Urban Systems Engineering Research Center. He has authored or co-authored more than 110 papers, and his research interests include geographic information for disasters, resilience and risk assessment of catastrophic meteorological events, and spatial big data and machine learning for spatial and temporal problem solving, particularly in the safe operation of smart cities.