Emmanuel Stefanakis

Biography

Since 1992, I have been involved in or led multiple research projects, primarily funded by Canadian agencies such as NSERC, NRCan, UNB, and UCalgary, as well as by the European Union (IST, COST, Telematics, Environment, TMR, ESPRIT) and the Greek government. I have served as an advisor or researcher at Hellenic Cadastre S.A., Intracom S.A., Hellenic Documentation Centre, and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft - AIS Institute in Germany. Since 1999, I have been a University Professor with extensive service records at multiple academic institutions in Canada and Europe. In September 2018, I began serving as the Department Head of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary. My teaching portfolio includes a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in Geospatial Information Science at institutions such as the University of Calgary, University of New Brunswick, HU Athens, NTU Athens, University of Piraeus, University of Aegean, Hellenic Open University, TU Crete, BW Munich, and UN Lisbon. These courses span various programs in Engineering and Science and are delivered through classroom-based, online, and distance-learning modes. I received the 2017 UNB President Teaching Scholar Award and the 2023 UCalgary Students' Union Teaching Excellence Award. My research interests include Geospatial Data Science, Digital Earth, Discrete Global Grid Systems, GeoAI, Geospatial Analytics, Geospatial Quantum Computing, Spatio-temporal Indexing, Optimization, Geovisualization, Cartography, Geospatial Web, Spatial Data Infrastructures, Interoperability of Geographic Data, Semantic Web, and applications of Geomatics in natural hazards, transportation, logistics, energy, and climate change, as well as education in Geomatics and Geomatics-Assisted Education. I have supervised over 140 students from all six continents and have authored or co-authored five textbooks and more than 150 articles published in international journals (e.g., IJGIS, IEEE TKDE, CEUS, IJGI, Transactions in GIS, CaGIS, Cartographica, Geomatica) and conference proceedings (e.g., IEEE KDE, COSIT, SDH, AGILE, ISPRS, ICA, GIScience). I have been a reviewer of research articles for international scientific journals and conferences and have served as a member of the Organizing, Program, and Scientific committees at international conferences in Geoinformatics. From January 2014 to March 2022, I served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Cartographica Journal. I was the recipient of the 2023 Award of Distinction for Exceptional Scholarly Contributions to Cartography from the Canadian Cartographic Association. In 2024-25, I served as the Conference Director of the 32nd International Cartographic Conference (ICC2025) held in Vancouver, BC in August 2025. I am a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS), and the Canadian Cartographic Association (CCA). I have been actively involved with the Canadian Board of Examiners for Professional Surveyors (CBEPS), the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG), the International Cartographic Association (ICA), and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).