Kegen Yu is currently Distinguished Professor in the School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics at China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), Xuzhou, China. He received his bachelor's degree from Changchun Geological College (now Jilin University), Changchun, China, in 1983; master’s degree from Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 1999; and Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2003. Prof. Yu has worked for universities and research organizations in Australia, China, and Finland, including UNSW, CSIRO, Wuhan University, and Oulu University. He participated in a number of research and development projects, as Task Leader or Principal Investigator, including projects funded by National Key Research and Development Program of China, NSFC, European Commission, Australian government, and industry such as Boeing. His research focuses on the fields of positioning, navigation, and remote sensing. Prof. Yu was awarded Hubei Provincial “One Hundred Talents Program” and received the honor of Distinguished Expert of Hubei Province in 2015. He has co-authored and edited 7 English books published by Wiley and IEEE Press, Springer Nature, and Science Press. He also coauthored more than 140 SCI journal papers, most of which are in top-tier journals such as IEEE TGRS, IEEE TVT, IEEE IOT Journal, IEEE TMC and IEEE TWC. He was ranked in the world's top 2% most-cited scientists list for career-long contributions (2024) and single-year impact (2023,2024) by Stanford University and Elsevier.