Prof. Dr. Shanghong Zhang graduated from the Department of Water Resources at Tsinghua University in 2000 and received his Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2004. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, from 2013 to 2014. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering at North China Electric Power University, where he serves as the dean and a leader in the water resources engineering discipline. He also serves as a director of the Beijing Hydropower Engineering Society, a member of the Water Resources Committee of the Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society, a member of the Youth Science and Technology Working Committee, a member of the Hydropower and New Energy Investment Committee of the Chinese Hydropower Engineering Society, the deputy editor-in-chief of Water Resources and Hydropower Technology, and an editorial board member of the Natural Science Edition of the Journal of North China Electric Power University. He is mainly engaged in the research of digital watershed simulation and ecological environment response under changing environment.