Professor Hone-Jay Chu received a PhD from NCTU in 2008 at National Chiao Tung University. His research involved artificial intelligence and optimization for water resource management. During his postdoc (2008–2011), Dr. Chu worked with Professor YP Lin on the issue of understanding the pros and cons of spatial environmental monitoring. They have extended the research goal to improve the performance of the land use change model. In 2011, he joined the Department of Geomatics at National Cheng Kung University as an assistant professor. His work includes aiming for spatial information for cases such as air pollution, land use/cover change, landslide detection, historical image registration, and other GIS applications.