Haijing Shi, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Director of the Loess Plateau Sub-Center of the National Earth System Science Data Center, National Science & Technology Infrastructure of China. She is also recognized as a Young Scholar of Western China. She earned her PhD in physical geography from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her research focuses on digital soil and water conservation, big-data–driven environmental analysis, and GIS-based ecological modeling. Dr. Shi has led more than 10 major research projects as principal investigator, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National R&D Infrastructure and Facility Development Program. She has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in internationally recognized journals and holds five national invention patents as well as six software copyrights. Her work advances high-resolution environmental monitoring, soil erosion modeling, and the development of scientific data infrastructures that support sustainable land management on the Loess Plateau and beyond.