I am an environmental scientist and an innovator creating science- and artificial intelligence-based solutions to ensure sustainability of food security and the environment. I am currently the Blue Waters Associate Professor in ecohydrology and remote sensing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I am also the founding director of the Agroecosystem Sustainability Center at UIUC. My research group uses satellite data, computational models, fieldwork, and machine learning approaches to address how climate and human practices affect crop productivity, water resource availability and ecosystem functioning. My group has keen interests in solving real-life problems, such as large-scale crop monitoring and forecasting, water management and sustainability, and global food security. We have published 100+ papers in leading scientific journals, including Science, Nature, Global Change Biology, etc. Our group leads 20+ major federal research projects funded by NASA, DOE, NSF and USDA.