Prof. Dr. Ru An currently works as a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, China. She received her bachelor's and doctoral degrees in cartography and geographic information systems from the Department of Geography at Nanjing University. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. She mainly engages in research and teaching in the fields of ecological environment, remote sensing monitoring of flood and drought disasters, remote sensing image information extraction and pattern recognition, and geographic information acquisition, visualization and system development.