About the Author

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Zhenpei Li has a master degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a Ph.D degree in Control science and Engineering, both from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China. He became a lecturer at the School of Civil & Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China since 2011 after getting his Ph.D degree. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Civil & Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University. From June 2014 to July 2016, he was a Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. He has more than ten years of experience in Oil & Gas pipeline research and application, especially in the field of pipeline data model. His research focuses on Geospatial technology and its application in Oil & Gas pipeline, Pipeline Integrity Management, pipeline spatial data modeling, pipeline leak detecting and locating, 3DGIS, WebGIS, Web3D and Networked Virtual Reality.