Dr. Kang Shaozhong was born in Hunan Province of China in 1962, and he is professor of agricultural soil and water engineering, Ph.D student supervisor, and the academician of the Chinese Academy Engineering. Dr. Kang is the chairman of appraisal panel of the Degree Committee of the State Council on Agricultural Engineering, the chairman of the expert review panel of water conservancy discipline of the NSFC, principal expert of modern agriculture field of the ‘863 Program’, vice-chairman of Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering, vice-chairman of Chinese Agricultural Water-saving and Rural Water Supply Technology Association, member of Science and Technology Committee of both the Ministry of Water Resources and the MOA. Dr. Kang was selected as the first batch ‘One-hundred Young Scientists Program’ of Chinese Academy of Science in 1994, recipient of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 1997, selected as Chang Jiang Scholar Distinguished Professor in 2001, awarded honorary doctoral degree of Science by Lancaster University of the United Kingdom in 2010, granted the Outstanding Innovation Group Fund of the NSFC in 2013.
Dr. Kang is one of the main academic leaders of agricultural soil and water engineering. The main research interests of Dr. Kang include high-efficient water use in agriculture and water resources management. Dr. Kang has been principal investigator or major participant of more than 40 projects funded by National Key Projects for Science and Technology, ‘973 Program’, ‘863 Program’, the Major Research Plan of the NSFC, the Key Program of the NSFC, the General Program of the NSFC, programs at ministry or provincial levels, and international cooperation programs. Dr. Kang has developed theories and practices to improve crop water use efficiency and regulated deficit irrigation, obtained evapotranspiration and crop coefficients and drewed the isomaps of water requirement for different crops in Northwest China, presented some methods for high efficiency irrigation, and established the optimal regional water management model in Northwest China, which have been applied broadly in Northwest China.
Dr. Kang has received awards including ICID Watsave Award-Technology, three times the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award of the State Council, the second prize of the National Natural Science Award of the State Council, the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award of the MOE, the third prize of the National Books of Science and Technology Award, seven times the first prize of science and technology awards at ministry or provincial levels. Dr. Kang has authored or coauthored over 300 peer-reviewed articles, of which 110 articles were SCI indexed and 131 EI indexed. He also published 12 academic or text books. Two Ph.D dissertations supervised by Dr. Kang were selected as ‘The National Top Hundred Ph.D Dissertations’.
Dr. Kang is in charge of the work of CAWR.