Dr. Xiao Xie received the PhD degree from Wuhan University in 2016. She has been a Research Fellow at the Department of Cartography of Technical University of Munich, Germany from 2014-2016 and now serving as a Senior Engineer at the key lab of environmental computing and sustainability, Liaoning province as well as an Assistant Professor in Urban and Environmental Computation at the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.Her research interests include 3DGIS and smart cities.