Hui Yang

Hui Yang, Professor is Professor and doctoral supervisor at China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), also the Director of the Department of Earth Information Science at the School of Resources and Geosciences, CUMT, the Deputy Director ofthe Big Data Research Center at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. She holds the following academic and professional memberships: Member of the Virtual Geographic Environment Committee, Chinese National Committee of the International Society for Digital Earth (ISDE), Member of the Big Data and Digital Earth Science Committee, Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, Senior Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF), Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She obtained her Ph.D. in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from Nanjing Normal University in June 2009 and subsequently joined the faculty of the School of Resources and Geosciences at CUMT. From 2010 to 2014, she conducted postdoctoral research at the Geological Resources and Geological Engineering Postdoctoral Research Station of CUMT. In 2016–2017, she was a visiting scholar at Ryerson University, Canada, under the sponsorship of the China Scholarship Council.