Professor Mei-Po Kwan is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Geography and Resource Management, Head of Chung Chi College, Director of the Institute of Space and Earth Information Science, and an affiliated faculty of the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prof. Kwan is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the U.K. Academy of Social Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Royal Geographical Society (U.K.), the American Association of Geographers (AAG), and the Geographical Society of China. She received many prestigious awards and honors from the AAG, including the Distinguished Scholarship Honors, the Anderson Medal of Honors in Applied Geography, the Wilbanks Prize for Transformational Research in Geography, the Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography, the Melinda Meade Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health and Medical Research, and the Edward L. Ullman Award for Outstanding Contributions to Transportation Geography. Prof. Kwan received two lifetime achievement awards (one from the International Geographical Union and the other from the International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Sciences). According to the list of the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, she was ranked No. 5 in the world in the field of geography in 2025. In the 2023 Global Scholar Database's Lifetime Academic Impact List, Kwan ranked first nationally in the field of geography.
Prof. Kwan has published over 530 journal articles, books, and book chapters. She has received research grants of more than USD 68.8 million and has delivered over 400 keynote addresses and invited lectures in more than 20 countries. Prof. Kwan has made ground-breaking contributions to research on environmental health, human mobility, smart cities, and geographic information science (GIScience). She is a leading researcher in deploying real-time GPS tracking and mobile sensing to collect individual-level data in environmental health research and uses them in building future and sustainable cities.
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