**Xiaolin Zhu**

Dr Zhu received his BSc in 2007 and MSc in 2010, both from Beijing Normal University. He received his PhD in geography at Ohio State University in 2014. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests are remote sensing methods and applications, including satellite image processing, data fusion, time series data analysis, night-time light remote sensing, image classification, change detection, environmental and urban remote sensing. He received the Robert N. Colwell Memorial Fellowship Award from the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing and the Li Xiaowen Remote Sensing Young Scholar Award. He was awarded China's Excellent Young Scientists Fund in 2020. He is currently an Editorial Board Member for Science of Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, National Remote Sensing Bulletin, and Big Earth Data.
