Dr. Chuanhui Gu is a tenured Associate Professor at Duke Kunshan University, currently serving as a seniorprincipal investigator at the Environmental Research Center. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he was a professor at Beijing Normal University and a tenured Associate Professor at Appalachian State University in the United States. He has led and participated in research projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, international cooperation projects, joint funds, and key research and development projects of China's Ministry of Science and Technology, with total funding exceeding 1.2 million USD. He has published over 60 SCI-indexed papers in top international journals in the fields of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He has served as a panel member for the U.S. National Science Foundation and a committee member of the University of North Carolina system within the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science. He is currently an Associate Editor of HydroResearch. In 2017, he was awarded the Outstanding Reviewer Award for Water Resources Research by the American Geophysical Union. In 2012, he received the Wachovia Environmental Research Award for his outstanding contributions to Appalachian environmental research.