Services

Editorial service, peer review, student exchanges, talks, and academic honors.

Academic Service

Editorial Experience

Plants, Special Issue Editor

Advanced Remote Sensing and AI Techniques in Agriculture and Forestry

Remote Sensing, Special Issue Editor

Integrating UAV-Based and Multi-Source Remote Sensing With Artificial Intelligence for Better Crop Management

Review Experience

Reviewer recognition: IJCAI-ECAI Gold Tier Reviewer Distinction (2026); ICML Silver Reviewer Award (2026).

Journal reviewing · Full list

Elsevier

Frontiers

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence|Frontiers in Plant Science

IEEE

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing|IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

MDPI

Springer Nature

Applied Intelligence|Earth Science Informatics|Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision|Scientific Data|Scientific Reports

Wiley

Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing

Others

Transactions on Machine Learning Research

Conferences

AAAI: 2027
AAMAS: 2027
ACL: 2026 (October cycle)
ACMSE: 2024–2026
CIKM: 2026
ICLR: 2027
ICML: 2026
ICMR: 2026
IGARSS: 2023–2026
IJCAI: 2025–2027
IJCNN: 2025–2026
ISBI: 2025–2026
NeurIPS: 2026
WWW: 2027

Academic & Community Engagement

Huawei Seeds for the Future · Algerian Student Visit

Student exchange with Algerian visitors at City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan). 28 October 2026.

Algerian students and CityUHK (Dongguan) participants at the Huawei Seeds for the Future exchange

Participants listening during the Huawei Seeds for the Future student exchange

Presentation during the Huawei Seeds for the Future visit to CityUHK (Dongguan)

Discussion with visiting Algerian students at CityUHK (Dongguan)

Award Presenter, Hong Kong Joint Collegiate Programming Contest (HKJCPC)|2026

Participants and organizers at HKJCPC 2026

Kangning Cui with prize recipients at HKJCPC 2026

Kangning Cui presenting an award to a prize recipient at HKJCPC 2026

Kangning Cui at the HKJCPC 2026 award ceremony

Founding President, SIAM Student Chapter at CityU|2022–2024

Members of the SIAM CityUHK Student Chapter at the 2023 annual meeting

Kangning Cui speaking at the SIAM CityUHK Student Chapter annual meeting in 2023

Presentations & Invited Talks

Efficient Deep Learning and Spatial Modeling for Mapping Tropical Forest Canopies

Seminar | November 2025| Department of Computer Science, Wake Forest University | Slides

Detection and Geographic Localization of Natural Objects in the Wild: A Case Study on Palms

Conference Presentation | August 2025| IJCAI 2025 | Slides

Detection and Segmentation for Optical Remote Sensing: From Satellites to UAVs

PhD Defense | July 2025| Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong | Slides

Honors, Awards & Scholarship

Outstanding Academic Performance Award|2024

SIAM Student Chapter Certificate of Recognition|2023

Earlier honors

Institutional Research Tuition Scholarship|2022–2023, 2024–2025

Postgraduate Studentship & Institutional Research Tuition Grant|2021–2025

CityU Scholarship|2020/21

CityU Special Fund for Non-local Outbound Exchange Students|2020

HKSAR Government Reaching Out Award|2019

Dean's List|2017–2021 (Most semesters)

Full Tuition Scholarship|2017–2021