Junfu Fan currently serves as a Professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Geomatics at Shandong University of Technology. He earned a PhD degree in Cartography and Geography Information Systems from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (September 2011–June 2014). He worked as Lecturer at the School of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Shandong University of Technology (July 2014–October 2020), a Visiting Scholar at the State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System (July 2015–July 2017), and the Head of Faculty at School of Civil and Architectural Engineering in Shandong University of Technology (October–December 2020). His skills and expertise are in geoinformation, satellite image analysis, geospatial science, and C++. His most recent publication is "NestNet: a multiscale convolutional neural network for remote sensing image change detection". His research interests include nighttime remote sensing; remote sensing using artificial intelligence; parallel computing; spatial analysis; and GIS.