XUELIANG CAI

Researcher - Water Resources & Remote Sensing

IWMI Sothern Africa

Curriculum Vitae

Xueliang Cai is a water resources & irrigation engineer and RS/GIS expert with 18 publications under his name. He has extensive experience in agricultural water and land scientific researches with focus on integrated irrigation water management issue through field experiment/social-economic survey, hydrological modeling, performance assessment, remote sensing/GIS interpretation and statistical analysis. His research interest lies in agricultural water and land management diagnosis and assessment, through analysis of agriculture performance responses to water cycling processes as consequences of water management practices, therefore to identify and introduce sustainable high potential interventions to improve land and water productivity for food security and livelihoods of the poor. Specific research strengths also include water accounting, crop biophysical and yield modeling, ET mapping, LULC dynamic detection, GIS based spatial modeling and statistical analysis (SAS). With copyrights of two softwares registered to State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of China, he is also skilled in programming and database.

He has gained significant international working experience during his PhD study in Wuhan University, China, through close collaboration with IWMI, IRRI and CSIRO. He was appointed as a Post Doctoral Fellow (Remote Sensing) at the International Water Management Institute, a CGIAR research centre headquartered in Colombo, Sri Lanka, effective June 2007. His post-doc works at IWMI further enriched his international working experience and strengthened his problem-solving research abilities to work in multi-culture and multi-discipline teams. Particularly he has working experiences in China, Sri Lanka, Central Asia, India, and Bangladesh.