Qingwang Liu is currently an associate professor with the Institute of Information Techniques of Forest Resources at the Chinese Academy of Forestry in Beijing. He received his B.E. degree in Surveying Engineering from the College of Geoscience and Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology in 2001, his M.E. degree in Geodesy and Surveying Engineering from the College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, University of Mining and Technology in 2004, and his Ph.D. degree in Forest Management from the Chinese Academy of Forestry in 2009. In 2011–2012, he was a trainee with the European Space Research Institute, ESA, Frascati, Italy. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Geography and Environmental Resources at Southern Illinois University. His research interests include forest structure measurement and modeling, forest disturbance, and change monitoring using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and photogrammetry.