Xuan Ban is an Associate Researcher at the Key Laboratory for Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Evaluation of Hubei Province, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. from the School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Wuhan University, in 2009, majoring in numerical simulation of eco-hydraulics and eco-hydrology and its application in the field of resources and environment. She was invited to study at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Fort Collins, Colorado and Lehigh University, one of the PATRIOT League schools of the United States. Her main research areas include ecological hydrology/hydraulics and ecological remote sensing. Some achievements have been made in the optimal allocation of water resources, habitat health assessment, and ecological flow scheduling.