陈永奇教授，1966年毕业于武汉测绘学院，在工业部门工作几年后于1974年回学院任教。在1983年在加拿大The University of New Brunswick测量工程系获得博士学位，回国后任武汉测绘科技大学教授、博导、系主任。1994年到香港理工大学任测绘与地理信息学系教授兼系主任。

    Professor Yongqi Chen, graduated from the Wuhan Surveying and Mapping College (WSMC) in 1966，after a few year working he started his teaching career back in WSMC in 1974. In 1983 he got a PhD of Surveying Engineering at The University of New Brunswick, Canada, and then became survey department head and professor in Wuhan Technology University of Surveying and Mapping. Since 1994 he has served as a professor in Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the head of survey and geography information department.