Dr. Hao Liang is a professor at Hohai University. He received a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Resources and Environment in 2012 from Huazhong Agricultural University and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology (Second Degree) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2012. From October 2015 to October 2016, he studied at McGill University, Canada. In 2017, he received a Ph.D. in Soil Science from China Agricultural University. From 2017 to 2019, he was a postdoctoral fellow at China Agricultural University. In September 2019, he joined Hohai University as an associate researcher. Since December 2024, he has been a professor. He has presided over two National Natural Science Foundation projects and two sub-projects of the National Key Research and Development Program and published more than 20 papers in top journals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as the first author. He is a member of the Agricultural Modeling and Simulation Professional Committee of the Chinese Simulation Society and a member of the Green Manure Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Plant Nutrition and Fertilizer. His research topics mainly include agro-ecological system processes and simulation, crop models, and watershed water–carbon–nitrogen coupling processes.