Xiaoying Yang received her Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Science and Engineering from Nanjing University in 1996 and her Doctorate in Environmental Resources and Policy from Southern Illinois University in 2004. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University. Her main research interests include river basin water environment simulation, river basin pollution control, climate change and river basin water security, machine learning, and data mining. She has presided over or participated in three National Natural Science Foundation projects and four National Major Science and Technology Projects, and has published more than 20 papers.