Prof. Dr. Yiping Guo graduated from Zhejiang University in China with a BEng degree in civil engineering in 1984. In 1991 and 1998 he received his MASc and PhD degrees, respectively, from the University of Toronto in Canada, majoring in water resources engineering. Before joining McMaster University, Canada, in 2001, he worked as a water resources engineer for four years in Canada and as a research scientist for three years in the USA. He is currently a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at McMaster University. His research mainly concentrates on the planning, design, and operation of urban drainage systems as well as climate change and its impacts.