Zheng Chunmiao, Ph.D. in hydrogeology with a minor in environmental engineering and recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award (2014), the Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chair Professor and Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology since 2015. He is fellow of Geological Society of America. Previously, he was Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Water Sciences at Peking University, and the George Lindahl III Endowed Professor at the University of Alabama. He served as the President of the International Commission on Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) from 2009-2013. He has been awarded the Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lectureship (2009) and the O.E. Meinzer Award (2013) by the Geological Society of America, and the John Hem Award (1998) and the M. King Hubbert Award (2013) by the National Groundwater Association of the U.S..