Prof. Yong Ge is a full professor of geographical information science at the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System (LREIS), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has been the deputy director of LREIS since 2016 and the director of the Department of Cartography in IGSNRR. She graduated from Wuhan University with a B.Eng. in Geomatics in 1995, where she obtained her M.Eng. in Geomatics in 1998. Subsequently, she moved to the Institute of Geographic Science & Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, and obtained a Ph.D. in Cartography and GIS in 2001. Prof. Ge’s research interests broadly focus on the statistical aspects of spatial and spatio-temporal data. Her research topics range from spatial-temporal sampling, scaling, remote sensing image analysis, and spatial data quality. Prof. Ge has authored more than 160 papers in the fields of spatial statistics, spatial uncertainty, and related fields. She holds eight granted patents in improving the accuracy of information extraction from spatial data.