Name

Affiliation

Title

Research Domain

1

Alexander Fordjour

Koforidua Technical University, Ghana

Professor

Water-saving irrigation

2

Biraj Singh Thapa

Kathmandu University

Professor

Fluid machinery, rotating engineering, sediment abrasion

3

Bas Bouman

International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Professor

Crop modeling and water-fertilizer management

4

David Molden

International Water Management Institute (IWMI)

Professor

Water resources management and protection

5

Hari Prasad Neopane

Kathmandu University

Associate Professor

Fluid machinery, rotating engineering, sediment abrasion

6

YU Yingduo

China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Department of Water Resources)

Senior Engineer

Research and development of intelligent control systems for integrated water-fertilizer irrigation; methods of large-scale soil moisture data acquisition and mining based on spread spectrum transmission; experimental and numerical studies on soil pollutant transport and environmental changes under drip irrigation; cumulative effects of “air-water” mixed irrigation (subsurface drip irrigation) on soil and crops

7

MA Yingjie

Xinjiang Agricultural University

Professor

Irrigation and drainage theory and technology

8

MA Juanjuan

Taiyuan University of Technology

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology; pore-water dynamics and efficient utilization of soil and water resources

9

WANG Zilong

Northeast Agricultural University

Professor

Mass and energy transfer in freeze-thaw soils and their coupling effects; water cycle processes in cold regions and quantitative characterization methods; mechanisms of ecohydrological process evolution in cold regions under changing environments

10

WANG Jun

China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Department of Water Resources)

Senior Engineer

Principles and technologies of micro-irrigation water-fertilizer management; experimental and modeling studies of coupled water, salt, heat, nitrogen, and crop growth processes in farmland; simulation of crop water consumption and yield responses to water-saving at the regional scale

11

WANG Chunxia

Shihezi University

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology

12

WANG Jun

Northwest A&F University

Professor

Soil carbon-nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas emissions; microbial regulation of soil carbon-nitrogen cycles; sustainable management of agro-ecosystems

13

WANG Zhenhua

Shihezi University

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology in arid regions; drip irrigation water-saving and salt-control theory and technology

14

WANG Jian

Northwest A&F University

Professor

Efficient utilization of soil and water resources; soil erosion

15

WANG Kang

Wuhan University

Professor

Soil water dynamics, soil water environment, soil water and solute transport testing theory and techniques, agricultural non-point source pollution theory

16

WANG Xinkun

Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering, Jiangsu University

Professor

Irrigation theory and new technologies; theories and technologies of new water-saving irrigation equipment; theories and techniques for the optimal design of water-saving irrigation engineering

17

YIN Juan

Ningxia University

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology; efficient utilization of water resources

18

SHEN Lixia

Taiyuan University of Technology

Professor

Efficient utilization of water and fertilizer resources; new technologies for water-saving irrigation; agronomic theories and techniques for water-saving

19

SHI Wenjuan

Xi’an University of Technology

Professor

Efficient utilization of agricultural water resources; soil and water resources and the ecological environment; water-saving irrigation theory and technology; theories of water transport in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum

20

SHI Liangsheng

Wuhan University

Professor

Interdisciplinary research on digital water conservancy and artificial intelligence, focusing on fundamental theories of sensing, cognition, and intelligent decision-making in water management; hydraulic machine vision and integrated ground-air-space intelligent sensing; big data-physical mechanism hybrid modeling

21

BAI Meijian

China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Department of Water Resources)

Senior Engineer

Specialized in irrigation water management: irrigation system optimization design; intelligent control technology for surface irrigation; key technologies for irrigation district modernization; efficient water-fertilizer utilization in surface irrigation

22

FENG Kepeng

Ningxia University

Professor

Agricultural remote sensing and hydrological remote sensing methods; water conservancy informatics; smart irrigation theory and technology; climate change and hydrological response

23

FENG Baoqing

China Irrigation and Drainage Development Center

Senior Engineer

Irrigation district planning and management; research and evaluation of agricultural irrigation water management; application of information technology in irrigation districts

24

FENG Hao

Northwest A&F University

Professor

Rainwater resource utilization, soil capacity expansion, and modeling of farmland water and nutrient transformations

25

ZHU Yan

Wuhan University

Professor

Soil water resources and soil pollutant transport and transformation; efficient numerical modeling of regional groundwater and solute transport; deep learning surrogate models; conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater; regional nitrogen non-point source pollution

26

ZHU Lei

Ningxia University

Professor

Groundwater resources and environment; engineering seepage; water and solute transport in porous media related to farmland water and solute movement

27

LIU Dong

Northeast Agricultural University

Professor

Optimal utilization and management of soil and water resources; water environment assessment theories and techniques; irrigation district optimization design theories and methods; regional water-soil-energy-food coupling; agricultural hydrological elements

28

LIU Zhandong

Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Professor

Crop water physiology and water-saving cultivation; R&D and application of smart integrated water-fertilizer technology

29

LIU Junping

Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering, Jiangsu University

Professor

Theories and technologies of new irrigation equipment; internal flow field mechanisms in fluid machinery and optimization; automatic control technologies for irrigation systems; integration of water, fertilizer, and pesticides and equipment development

30

SUN Shikun

Northwest A&F University

Professor

Water footprint and virtual water; hydrological remote sensing and smart water conservancy; agricultural ecosystem water-carbon processes and regulation under changing environments

31

YAN Haijun

China Agricultural University

Professor

Sprinkler and micro-irrigation theory and technology; development of water-saving irrigation equipment; pipeline network optimization design

32

LI Yunkai

China Agricultural University

Professor

Precision, efficient water-saving irrigation equipment and system optimization; drip irrigation for high-quality, high-yield crops with intelligent management; efficient treatment, reuse, and environmental impact control of poor-quality water; coupling and regulation of water-energy-food-environment systems

33

LI Weiping

Inner Mongolia Agricultural University

Professor

Mechanisms of crop quality response to water-fertilizer coupling; spatial variability of soil water and salt; irrigation and drainage principles and management decision-making

34

LI Xianyue

Inner Mongolia Agricultural University

Professor

Farmland crop water consumption; simulation of farmland water-fertilizer-salt cycling; agricultural ecological environmental effects

35

LI Si’en

China Agricultural University

Professor

Soil-plant-atmosphere continuum theories of water, heat, carbon, and nitrogen transfer; farmland ecohydrological processes and modeling; agricultural hydrometeorology; new irrigation and drainage technologies and theories

36

LI Ruiping

Inner Mongolia Agricultural University

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology; water-heat-salt migration in freeze-thaw soils; soil moisture remote sensing monitoring

37

LI Yi

Northwest A&F University

Professor

Non-destructive diagnosis and intelligent prediction of soil and crop conditions; impacts of drought at multiple spatiotemporal scales on crop yield; spatiotemporal distribution of extreme precipitation and temperature; water-saving and salt control in saline-alkali lands

38

XIAO Juan

Taiyuan University of Technology

Professor

New water-saving technologies and efficient utilization of soil and water resources; theories and technologies for coordinated water-fertilizer control in smart irrigation; river ecological protection and restoration

39

WU Di

China Irrigation and Drainage Development Center

Senior Engineer

Irrigation district planning and management; efficient utilization of water resources; application of remote sensing in irrigation districts

40

QIU Rangjian

Wuhan University

Professor

Efficient utilization of water resources under changing environments; principles and technologies of smart irrigation; agricultural carbon emissions

41

HE Xinlin

Shihezi University

Professor

Arid region hydrology and water resources; water-saving irrigation theory and technology; ecohydrology

42

SHE Dongli

Hohai University

Professor

Efficient utilization and protection of agricultural soil and water resources; modern irrigation and drainage theories and water-saving technologies; agricultural soil and water processes and soil and water conservation; agricultural soil and water resources planning and management

43

ZHANG Jie

Hohai University

Professor

Efficient crop water use; regulation of agricultural soil and water environments; plant responses to environmental stresses

44

ZHANG Zhitao

Northwest A&F University

Professor

Application of remote sensing in hydrology, water resources, and agricultural soil-water engineering; smart water conservancy; hydrological remote sensing; optimal water resources allocation; smart irrigation management systems and new technology development

45

LU Wenhong

China Irrigation and Drainage Development Center

Senior Engineer

Modernization and management of irrigation districts; agricultural irrigation water management; comprehensive reform of agricultural water pricing

46

CHEN Weifeng

Shandong Agricultural University

Professor

Ecological restoration of saline-alkali lands; land consolidation; plant stress ecology

47

CHEN Junfeng

Taiyuan University of Technology

Professor

Optimal water resources allocation; water resources assessment; water environment impact assessment; groundwater numerical simulation; delineation of water source protection areas; control of groundwater overextraction; karst spring domain groundwater research; effects of freeze-thaw periods

48

CHEN Zhifang

Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Professor

Development of irrigation forecasting and decision-making systems; multi-source irrigation information integration methods; regional crop evapotranspiration inversion studies

49

SHAO Guangcheng

Hohai University

Professor

Theories and technologies for soil and water resources planning; irrigation and drainage theory and technology; soil and water conservation and desertification control

50

SHANG Songhao

Tsinghua University

Research Fellow

Agricultural hydrology and water resources; hydrology, water resources, and ecological water use in arid regions

51

LUO Yufeng

Wuhan University

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology; irrigation forecasting; intelligent irrigation decision-making; modern irrigation district construction; paddy field non-point source pollution control

52

YUE Chunfang

Xinjiang Agricultural University

Professor

Water conservancy project management (optimal water resources allocation, project cost management, river channel sand mining management); irrigation district informatics; safety monitoring of hydraulic structures; water ecological restoration

53

ZHOU Beibei

Xi’an University of Technology

Professor

Efficient use of agricultural water and fertilizer and biotechnology; bioremediation of poor-quality soils; characteristics and simulation models of agricultural non-point source pollution; biotransformation and utilization of agricultural solid waste

54

HU Xiaotao

Northwest A&F University

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology; mechanisms and technologies for water-saving and quality improvement in greenhouse cash crops; crop water deficit diagnosis; smart water conservancy

55

ZHONG Hua

Ningbo Dongfang University of Technology

Professor

Transport and transformation of pollutants in farmland water conservancy, agricultural soil-water engineering, groundwater, and natural porous media; natural attenuation and enhancement processes of agricultural non-point source pollutants; remediation technologies for contaminated soils and water environments; construction of urban water supply security technology systems under multiple water sources

56

JIANG Qiuxiang

Northeast Agricultural University

Professor

Simulation and optimization of coupled soil-water resource systems; efficient utilization and management of soil and water resources; sustainable evaluation and regulation of water footprints

57

XU Lei

China Irrigation and Drainage Development Center

Senior Engineer

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology; modernization of irrigation districts; comprehensive reform of agricultural water pricing

58

XU Zhanguo

Wuhan University

Associate Senior Editor

Smart water conservancy

59

XU Junzeng

Hohai University

Professor

Efficient crop water-fertilizer utilization and intelligent management; efficient use of agricultural water resources and its ecological effects; farmland water transformation processes and sustainable irrigation theory

60

GAO Yang

Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Professor

Crop-water relationships: water-carbon coupling processes based on optimal stomatal behavior theory; interaction mechanisms between crop roots and soil

61

GUO Xianghong

Taiyuan University of Technology

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology; multi-process simulation of soil and water resources; soil-crop-environment digital twin models

62

GUO Xiangping

Hohai University

Professor

Water-saving drainage theory and technology; environmental effects of irrigation and drainage; saline-alkali land improvement; soil and water conservation

63

HUANG Quanzhong

China Agricultural University

Professor

Water-heat-salt (solute) transport mechanisms in porous media and quantitative characterization; farmland hydrological and nutrient processes and their efficient regulation; safe utilization of reclaimed water and pollution control; crop demand-based irrigation and smart agriculture; evolution of soil-water environments under changing conditions and adaptation strategies

64

CAO Hongxia

Northwest A&F University

Professor

Principles and new technologies of water-saving irrigation

65

DONG Bin

Wuhan University

Professor

Water-saving irrigation theory and technology; improvement and remediation of farmland water environments

66

LEI Bo

China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Department of Water Resources)

Senior Engineer

Strategy and policy research focusing on water resource economics, agricultural water management, and evaluation

67

GUAN Guanghua

Wuhan University

Professor

Intelligent ecological regulation of water conveyance systems; theories and methods for canal flow measurement; new structures in irrigation and drainage engineering

68

FAN Xiangyang

Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Professor

Theories and technologies of agricultural water resources and water environment, including mechanisms and control of typical pollutant transport and transformation for non-conventional water resources, environmental impact assessment, non-conventional water safe irrigation, and methods for multi-source irrigation water allocation in irrigation districts or regions

69

HUO Zailin

China Agricultural University

Professor

Efficient agricultural water use under changing environments; farmland water cycle and soil-water environmental processes; hydrological processes and water resource transformation in arid regions