Yifang Ban

Dr Yifang Ban is the Professor and Director of Geoinformatics Division at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She received a PhD from University of Waterloo in Canada. Her research is focused on multitemporal multisensor remote sensing, EO big data analytics, machine leaning/deep learning, and their applications in urban mapping, urbanization monitoring, global environmental change detection and impact assessment, among others. She has published extensively on these topics.  

Professor Ban is a co-lead of the GEO initiative ‘Global Urban Observation and Information’, and a co-chair for ICA Commission on Sensor-Driven Mapping. She is also an invited Expert of the UN Habitat’s Technical Committee on Human Settlements Indicators for UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She has been an Associate Editor and Guest Editor for major Remote Sensing journals and invited expert for EU and national grant application evaluations