Joe is a geospatial scientist with outstanding academic background,
with over ten years of practical work experience in the field of Geospatial Data Sciences, 3D Web GIS, Digital Twins, and GeoAI.  He won awards in Innovative Geospatial Applications from well-known institutions such as NASA and United Nations.

He participated in several OGC pilots and activities, especially in the development and best practice of the OGC Web standards. He is currently a researcher at the Center of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, HFT Stuttgart, and a Ph.D. candidate in Geospatial and Environmental Science at TU Dresden, Germany.