Prof. Quanxi Shao is currently a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Data61. He works on a wide variety of projects in environmental sciences, water resource research, hydrology, and agriculture and has managed research teams in several national projects. He has led his division in a new direction with his hydrological work and has played an important scientific leadership role in representing his division in Water for a Healthy Country flagship projects. His research activities include statistical trend analysis for hydroclimate data, the uncertainty framework and uncertainty analysis, water accounting and estimation, statistical downscaling, data disaggregation, extreme event modelling, and statistical prediction and forecasting. Prof. Shao currently focuses on forecasting plant water stress as part of dynamically managing irrigation regimes at CSIRO DigiScape FSP and leads a multi-million-dollar project with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology assessing the reliability of non-Bureau of Meteorology automatic weather stations as part of a Drought Resilience Mission. He has served as a member of the scientific committees of several international conferences. He has also held several adjunct/honorary professorship positions both in Australia and overseas. He has established long-term research collaborations with both Australian and international researchers in disciplinary and applied research.