Associate prof. Dr. Xiaomeng Song is a doctor of engineering, doctoral supervisor, and deputy director of the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources. He joined the School of Resources of China University of Mining and Technology in July 2015 and engaged in postdoctoral research (on the job) at the Postdoctoral Research Station of Water Conservancy Engineering of Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute in February 2018. He went to the University of Melbourne, Australia, as a visiting scholar for study and exchange in 2019-2020. He is the winner of Jiangsu Province's 100 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations (2016) and a member of the Chinese Society of Hydraulic Engineering. He has carried out scientific research work at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2010-2012), Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (2012-2015), and the University of Melbourne, Australia (2019-2020). He is mainly engaged in teaching and research work in the field of hydrology and water resources. His main research directions include the simulation of hydrological processes, urbanization and water security, environmental changes and drought and flood disasters, uncertainty theory of hydrological models, and water resources evaluation.