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Prof. Yangbo Chen

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Chen Yangbo, male, born in June 1964 in Chongyang, Hubei Province. He received his Ph.D. in hydrology and water resources from Wuhan University (formerly Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power). He has been a visiting researcher at Princeton University and the University of California, Irvine. He is currently a professor in the Department of Water Resources and Environment, School of Geographic Science and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University; a doctoral supervisor of physical geography, GISs, and remote sensing; and Director of the Laboratory of Water Disaster Management and Water Conservancy Information Technology. He also introduced talents from the early "100 Talents Plan" of Sun Yat-sen University (2002). He is also the chairman-in-waiting of the International Remote Sensing Committee of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (formally assumed the chairmanship in July 2017), Chair of the Working Group on Modeling Hydrological Processes and Changes of the New Decade Research Plan of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Chief Scientist of the OSUFFIM Project of the United Nations Asia-Pacific Typhoon Committee, and Vice President of the Digital Water Technology Innovation and Development Alliance. Lastly, he is a Guangdong sponge city construction expert and a Guangzhou emergency management expert group member.

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Chen Yangbo, male, born in June 1964 in Chongyang, Hubei Province. He received his Ph.D. in hydrology and water resources from Wuhan University (formerly Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power). He has been a visiting researcher at Princeton University and the University of California, Irvine. He is currently a professor in the Department of Water Resources and Environment, School of Geographic Science and Planning, Sun Yat-sen University; a doctoral supervisor of physical geography, GISs, and remote sensing; and Director of the Laboratory of Water Disaster Management and Water Conservancy Information Technology. He also introduced talents from the early "100 Talents Plan" of Sun Yat-sen University (2002). He is also the chairman-in-waiting of the International Remote Sensing Committee of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (formally assumed the chairmanship in July 2017), Chair of the Working Group on Modeling Hydrological Processes and Changes of the New Decade Research Plan of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, Chief Scientist of the OSUFFIM Project of the United Nations Asia-Pacific Typhoon Committee, and Vice President of the Digital Water Technology Innovation and Development Alliance. Lastly, he is a Guangdong sponge city construction expert and a Guangzhou emergency management expert group member.