Prof. Dr. Dianfeng Liu received his Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees from Wuhan University in 2006 and 2011, respectively, and visited the University of North Carolina in 2015. He is currently a director of the China Land Economics Society, a director of the China Rural Development Society, a vice chairman of the Youth Work Committee of the Land Economics Society, a member of the Resource Big Data Branch of the China Natural Resources Society, a member of the Special Committee of the China Rural Development Society, and a vice chairman of the Special Committee of the Hubei Provincial Land and Space Planning Society. He is mainly engaged in the research of urbanization and land space optimization, and specifically uses geographic information modeling, spatiotemporal data mining, and other means to carry out research on urban spatial evolution and ecological effects, land use optimization and simulation, land space planning, rural regional system simulation, etc.