Director of GIM Lab
Biography
Jonathan Li, PhD, PEng, FIEEE, FRSC, FCAE, FEIC, FAAIA
Emeritus Professor and Adjunct Professor, September 2025 – present
Department of Geography and Environmental Management
Emeritus Director, Geospatial Intelligence and Mapping Lab
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
Employment History (January 2007 - August 2025):
- Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management
- Professor (cross-appointed), Department of Systems Design Engineering
- Director, Geospatial Intelligence and Mapping Lab
- Founding Member, Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute
- Founding Member, Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Changes (now Waterloo Climate Institute)
- Member, Water Institute
Distinctions and Recognitions
- Fellow, The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Academy of Science
- Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering
- Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada
- Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association
- Fellow, IEEE, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
Professional Services
- Editor in Chief, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Associate Editor, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
- Editorial Board Member, Geomatica, an Elsevier journal affiliated with the Canadian Institute of Geomatics
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2015-2024)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics of Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2015-2020)
- Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (2018-2022)
- President, Canadian Institute of Geomatics (2023-2025)
- President-Elect, Canadian Institute of Geomatics (2021-2023)
- Vice President, Canadian Institute of Geomatics (2020-2021)
- Executive Director, Canadian Remote Sensing Society (2020-2022)
- Chair, ICA Commission on Sensor-driven Mapping (2015-2019; 2019-2023)
- Chair, ISPRS Working Group on LiDAR, Air- and Spaceborne Optical Sensing (2020-2024)
- Chair, CRSS-SCT Waterloo Region Chapter
Awards
- Recipient, 2022-2023 Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, granted by the University of Waterloo
- Recipient, 2021 Geomatica Award granted by the Canadian Institute of Geomatics
- Recipient, 2020 Samuel Gamble Award granted by the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing