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Gong Peng, Ph.D.

Professor and Director of Center for Healthy Cities, Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization; Chair, Department of Earth System Science; Dean, School of Science, Tsinghua University

Education Background
Peng Gong received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in geography from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 1984 and 1986, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in geography from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1990.

Work Experience

He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary, AB, Canada, before joining the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, in 1994, where he became a full Professor in 2001. He became the Director of the Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 2010.

Research Interests
Global land surface change, public health, temporal and spatial spread of schistosomiasis, malaria and avian influenza.

Prof. Gong Peng’s group is building a “Environmental and Healthy Ecology Experimental Station” in Poyang Lake. Scholars with science/engineering/medical backgrounds are welcome to join.
Remote sensing, Lidar data processing, the application of remote sensing in coastal, wetland, forest, and urban environments.
Scholars with geomatics/geodesy/surveying/mapping/computer backgrounds are welcome to join.
The application of wireless sensor network in ground validation of remote sensing and earth system science. We focus on its environmental applications.
Research on miniature sensor configurations, sampling design, data processing and information extraction and predictive warning. Scholars with backgrounds in computer, electronic circuit design and mechanical automation are welcome to join.

Awards & Honors
Prof. Gong received a number of honors and awards including the outstanding contribution award in remote sensing from the Association of American Geographers in 2008 and the Talbert Abrams Grand Award from the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing in 1994.

In 1998, he was awarded the first batch of (30) National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Science Fund (overseas). In 1999, he was hired as the first batch of (33) overseas review experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2004, he was hired by the Ministry of Science and Technology as the first batch (9) members of the Overseas Advisory Expert Group.

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