Prof. Ed McBean
University of Guelph, Canada
Ed McBean is a Former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Water Supply Security and now University of Guelph Research Leadership Chair Professor, Water Security. In that context, he relies upon statistical interpretation of data, fate and transport of chemicals and pathogens in the environment, and risk assessment/ management, to determine how features of water supply risk may arise. Hence, there are dimensions of a number of features including climate change and fate and transport modeling as applied to water resources phenomena. In addition to the above, Ed also has extensive experience in waste management, and greenhouse gas emissions as contributory to global climate change.
Prof. Caterina Valeo
University of Victoria, Canada
Dr. Caterina Valeo is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Victoria and a Professional Engineer in the Province of British Columbia. After receiving undergraduate degrees in Physics and later, a second one in Civil Engineering, both from the University of Toronto, she went to McMaster University to complete a Masters degree and eventually a PhD specializing in urban water resources in 1998. She worked as an academic at the University of Manitoba for 2 years then moved to Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary in 2000 where she began developing what has now become a prolific 20 year career conducting research and teaching in Environmental Information Sciences. She moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Victoria in 2011 to continue her interdisciplinary research that merges information science with environmental science and engineering. Her research interests and areas of application are wide and varied and range from researching the impacts of global scale changes on forestry and water supply to developing sensors and models to describe the role of bacteria and biofilm in treating polluted water. She has more than 200 publications including 3 co-authored books on topics as diverse as Environmental Hydraulics and Digital Terrain Modelling. She has collaborated with over 100 researchers across the globe, has received and participated in several millions of dollars in grants and is the recipient of numerous accolades including the 2014 Award of Distinguished Scientist from the International Society for Environmental Information Sciences. Today Dr. Valeo runs the Biofilm Research Laboratory and the HAL Research Site at the University of Victoria and continues to conduct multi-collaborative research that uses Environmental Informatics tools to create sustainable solutions to society’s modern problems.
Prof. Gordon Huang
International Society for Environmental Information Science
Dr. Guohe Huang is President of International
Society for Environmental Information Sciences, Fellow of Canadian Academy of
Engineering, and Editor-in-Chief for J. of Environmental Informatics (JCR Q1).
He holds BSc from Peking University (China), MSc from Simon Fraser University
(Canada) and PhD from McMaster University (Canada). He produced over 1000
journal papers with h-index 90 in Science Citation Index under Web of Science
(over 46,000 citations, and Google Scholar h-index over 100). He supervised over
140 Master/PhD students (with over 40 of them being faculty members at
universities in Canada, USA, UK, Singapore, Hongkong and China). His pioneering
work in energy and environmental risk management has been recognized as a
significant innovation, and has influenced government and business approaches
for tackling environmental challenges and formulating related policies.
Prof. Yongping Li
Beijing Normal University, China
Dr. Yongping Li is a Changjiang Scholar
Professor at Beijing Normal University, China. She receives her MSc and PhD
Degrees from the University of Regina, Canada. Dr. Li has led or involved in
over 60 energy- and environment-related research projects supported by
industrial, governmental and international organizations. She has produced
470 peer-refereed international journal papers (SCI-based H-index of 58),
and supervised over 80 Master/PhD students. She has been continuously
selected as a highly cited scholar in the field of “Environmental Science”
(by Elsevier) since 2013. She has been continuously included in Stanford
University’s 2020-2024 World Ranking for the world’s top 2 per cent of
most-cited scientists in the field of Environmental Engineering. Previously,
Dr. Li was received a number of awards such as Distinguished Young Scientist
Award, New Century Excellent Talents in University, the National Natural
Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar in 2012, the National Award
for Youth in Science and Technology, and the National Award for Youth Female
Scientist.