Zhanlong Chen received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and a Ph.D. from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, in 2009, all in cartology and geographic information engineering. He is currently a Full Professor with the School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences. His research interests include intelligent mining of spatio-temporal data and high-performance spatial intelligence computation.