Qingfeng Guan received a B.S. degree in geography from East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 2000, the M.S. degree in geography from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2008. He is currently a Professor at the School of Geography and Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China. His research interests include high-performance geospatial computing, spatial computational intelligence, and spatiotemporal modeling.