Excellence in Research - Faculty of Construction and Environment

Academic Staff
Dr WU Bo 吳 波 博 士
BSc, MSc, PhD
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
Dr SHEA Yu-kai Geoffrey 佘 裕 佳 博 士
BSc, PgDip, MSc, ME, MBCS, FHKInstES, PhD
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Telephone no.: (852) 2766-4335
Email address: lsbowu@polyu.edu.hk
Teaching areas
Principles of GIS (Geographic Information System), GIS Applications, Spatial
Analysis, Utility Monitoring and Maintenance
Research interests
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Planetary Mapping and Robotic/
Human Navigation, Machine Vision and Virtual Reality, 3D GIS and
Applications
Biography
Dr Wu obtained his doctoral degree from the State Key Laboratory of
Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing
of Wuhan University in China in June 2006. After that, He worked as a
Post-Doctoral Researcher (07-2006 to 07-2008) and a Research Associate
- Engineering (07-2008 to 07-2009) at the Ohio State University in the
United States. Since 2006, Dr Wu has been working on NASA funded
projects for Mars and Lunar exploration missions, including Mars Rover
localization, landing site mapping, and Lunar topographic mapping.
Currently he is serving as the Vice President of the Hong Kong Geographic
Information System Association and the Co-Chair of the Working Group
II/6 (Geo-Visualization and Virtual Reality) of the International Society for
Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. He has published over 30 research
articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He was a
recipient of the Duane C. Brown Senior Award (Photogrammetry) in 2009.
SENIOR LECTURER
Telephone no.: (852) 2766-5958
Email address: lsykshea@polyu.edu.hk
Teaching areas
Geomatics Programming, Database and Data Infrastructure, Geospatial,
Computers and Information Technology, Internet and Mobile GIS, Locationbased
Computing and Services
Research interests
Algorithms Development and Applications on Mobile GIS Data Modeling,
Storage, Presentation and Communications.
Biography
Dr Shea has been a member of the academic staff of the Department
of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University since 1988. He has obtained the degree of Master of
Engineering (by research) with his dissertation relating to the integration
of diverse geospatial data sources, and is now working towards a Doctor
of Philosophy degree with the focus of his research on internet and mobile
GIS. He has been involved in the Information Technology industry since
1987 when he was working in Hong Kong CAD-CAM Services Co. Ltd. on
a GIS consultancy project for the then Urban Services Department of
the Hong Kong Government. He has been a member with Chartered IT
Professional status (MBCS CITP) of the British Computer Society since 2007.
Mr Shea has been working on internet and mobile GIS over the last seven
years. A full function mobile GIS using an adaptive approach to fetch and
display geospatial data in mobile devices has been developed and tested.
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