HUANG Haosheng is a Professor of Geoinformatics and Cartography at Ghent University in Belgium and the Co-Director of the GeoAI Research Centre. He obtained his PhD in Geoinformatics and Cartography from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria in 2013. He previously served as a Senior Lecturer and Research Team Leader at the GIS Centre of the University of Zurich in Switzerland from 2016 to 2020, and as a University Assistant and Lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology from 2014 to 2016.
His research focuses on geoinformatics and cartography, location-based services, spatial cognition, and GeoAI. He is the Vice-President of the International Cartographic Association (ICA), the Founding Chair of the ICA Commission on Location Based Services, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Location Based Services (Taylor & Francis) , the Associate Editor of the Journal of Maps (Taylor & Francis) , and a member of the editorial boards and guest editor for several international journals, including JGSA, CaGIS, GSIS, among others.