Collaboration and Partnership with Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dr. George Liu, U of C Alumnus, PhD, 2004, visited our department in July 2019. Dr. Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics (LSGI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong.

On July 25th, Dr. Liu gave a presentation to our faculty and graduate students. In the first part of this talk, he gave a brief introduction to Hong Kong’s tertiary system. Then, he presented the only geomatics engineering program in Hong Kong – the Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, focusing on the undergraduate and graduate student exchange opportunities and potential research collaborations.

In the second part of this talk, Dr. Liu introduced the research activities focusing on the ionospheric research that have been carried out at the PolyU Micro-Laboratory of Atmospheric Research and Geomatics Engineering (Micro-LARGE).

Notably, during his presentation Dr. Liu projected a slide produced by the Hong Kong PolyU librarians summarizing the research output among outstanding Geomatics Engineering programs around the world for the period 2000-2018. It is excellent news that U of C is ranked first!

On July 26, Dr. Liu met with faculty in the Department of Geomatics Engineering to discuss the student exchange programs between our units as well as various opportunities for research collaboration.

After the meeting Dr. Liu presented a leather-framed Certificate signed by Prof. Wen Zhong John Shi, Department Head of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong PolyU, to Prof Emmanuel Stefanakis, Head of Geomatics Engineering at U of C, celebrating the long term collaboration between our units.