Dr. Zhigang Han is a Professor at Henan University. He received his Ph.D. from the Departemt of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University in 2011. He served as Assistant Professor (2005–2008), Lecturer (2008–2012), and Associate Professor (2012–2020) at the College of Geography and Environmental Science, Henan University. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Toronto Metropolitan University. He serves as the Vice President of the Henan Industrial Technology Academy of Spatiotemporal Big Data (Henan University). He is a member of the Committee on Geographical Big Data of the Chinese Geographical Society and the Deputy Director of the Committee on Cartography and GIS of the Chinese Society of Surveying and Mapping. His primary research interests encompass the theory and methods of spatiotemporal big data and smart applications, geospatial intelligence and urban/social geocomputation, and geographic process modeling and spatial optimization. He has been granted the 15th Henan Provincial Youth Science and Technology Prize. He has published more than 50 academic papers and has been approved for more than 10 research projects as principal investigator.