Dr.Li-Yang Xiong is an associate professor at the School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China.He is currently responsible for managing NNU"s research in Digital Terrain Model and Digital Terrain Analysis. His main research interests include loess terrain feature characterization, landform evolution modeling paleotopography reconstruction and geomorphological process mining. Dr.Xiong obtained his PhD degree in cartography and geographical information system at the School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University (NNU), China, and has previously worked at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UWM) as apostdoctoral research fellow.