Dr. Zailin Huo is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University. He completed his PhD studies in Agricultural Water Conservancy Engineering at the China Agricultural University (2007). He worked as a visiting researcher at Cornell University in the United States from January 2013 to February 2014. In 2013, he won the National Excellent Young Scientist Fund and was selected into the New Century Excellent Talent Support Program of the Ministry of Education in the same year; in 2016, he was chosen as a young scholar of the Talent Program of the Ministry of Education, and in 2020, he was selected as a distinguished professor of the Talent Program of the Ministry of Education. He has presided over more than 20 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and national key research and development projects. The results he presided over and participated in have won six science and technology awards at or above the ministerial and provincial levels, including the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education. He is mainly engaged in research on agricultural hydrology and water and soil environment, the efficient utilization of agricultural water resources, etc. In recent years, he has focused primarily on research on the intelligent management and control of agricultural water systems.