Dr. Chuanglin Fang obtained his Ph.D. in Geography in 1998 from theInstitute of Geography at the Chinese Academy of Sciences-National PlanningCommittee. Dr. Fang is a professor of the Institute of Geographic Science andResources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a DistinguishedProfessor of “Changjiang Scholars” and “Tianshan Scholars” and a doctoralfaculty. Dr. Fang is currently a member of the International Society of Cityand Regional Planners, executive council member of the Regional Science Association(RSA) China Division, director of the Human Geography Specialty Committee ofthe Chinese Geographic Society, Vice President of the Chinese Urban and RuralDevelopment Think Tank Association, executive council member of the ChineseUrban Science Association, executive council member of Chinese Urban EconomicsStudies, council member of Chinese Urban Planning Association, council memberof China’s Urbanization Promotion Association, and council memberof theChina’s Geographic Society. In recent years, Dr. Fang has mainly engaged in theresearch and teaching of urban geography, sustainable development of urbanagglomerations, the process of urbanization and its impact on theeco-environments. Dr. Fang has served and is still serving as the principalinvestigator of over 120 various projects funded by the Chinese NationalNatural Science Foundation (Key Projects), Chinese National Social ScienceFoundation (Key Projects), and the Chinese National “973” Projects, among manyothers. Dr. Fang is a very prolific scholar with a publication record of over20 edited manuscripts or monographs, and over 330 peer-reviewed journalarticles (among them, 50 are published in journals that are indexed inSCI/SSCI).Dr. Danlin Yu obtained his Ph.D. in Geography from the University ofWis-consin-Milwaukee in 2005. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor ofUrban Geography and GIS at Montclair State University. Dr. Yu’smain researchareas include urban and regional development planning, spatial data analysis,geographic information science and technology, geocomputation, simulation ofcomplex systems, big data mining and analysis and its application in human andnatural systems. So far, Dr. Yu has published more than 60 journalarticles/book chapters in these areas in both Chinese and English, among them,more than 40 papers are published in SCI / SSCI indexed journals. Dr. Yu’sresearch in these areas has gained domestic and international influences. Dr.Yu has been actively using R language to write freely available spatial dataanalysis software packages. He is one of the co-authors of the SPGWR packagethat is for Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis. The package hasalready received a wide range of applications in the world. Since 2008, Dr. Yuwas invited by the Georgia National Science Foundation as internationalevaluation experts. Dr. Yu currently serves as an Associate Editor for theJournal of Urban Planning and Development since 2012. From 2013 onwards, Dr. Yuwas awarded the “Tianshan Scholar” title by the Xinjiang Uyghur AutonomousRegion, and housed in Xinjiang University.
