Liang Tang is a professor in Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU), deputy director of MARA Key Laboratory Crop System Analysis and Decision-making. He received his PhD degree in Agronomy at NAU in 2006. He is an associate editor of Field Crops Research, guest editor of European Journal of Agronomy. He focuses on crop modeling, remote sensing and decision support system. He has authored or co-authored + 150 refereed journal articles, written 3 monographs and textbooks, and won 5 national invention patents.