Tiesong, Hu was born in October 1964. From 1982 to 1993, he studied hydrology and Water resources at Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Power and obtained bachelor's, master's and Doctor's degrees in engineering. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Postdoctoral Research Station of Civil Hydraulic Engineering in Sichuan University, from 1995 to 1997, at the Postdoctoral Research Station of Civil Hydraulic Engineering in Wuhan University of Hydraulic Engineering and Electric Engineering, and, from 1999 to 2001, he worked as a co-operative researcher at City University of Hong Kong. He was appointed as an associate professor at Sichuan University in June 1995, a professor at Wuhan University in December 1997, and a doctoral advisor at Wuhan University in December 2001. Main research areas: (1) Water resources allocation, water allocation, reservoir operation and hydrological forecasting; (2) Farmland drainage runoff simulation and response mechanism of crops to drought and flood stress; (3) Multi-level and multi-objective decision-making and intelligent evolution algorithm of large systems; (4) Water resources management system design and nuclear power water resources management. He has published more than 150 papers in core journals locally and abroad. His articles have been cited 1,923 times.