Dr. Yue Rong (“YR”) is currently the Environmental Program Manager at the California Environmental Protection Agency, Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board. He was the recipient of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board  Outstanding Achievement Award and Supervisory Performance Award. He also received the AEHS Foundation Achievement Award. He is an Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed Journal of Soil and Sediment Contamination and an Associate Editor for the journal of Environmental Forensics. Dr. Rong is the author or co-authors for about 30 peer-reviewed publications, and editor of the book Practical Environmental Statistics and Data Analysis. Dr. Rong was elected in 2006 and again in 2008 as the president of the Southern California Chinese American Environmental Protection Association (SCCAEPA), serving the local minority community. He is also the Editor-in-Chief for the peer-reviewed SCCAEPA Online Journal. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and M.S. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and received his B.S. in Earth Science from the Beijing Normal University. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the Environmental College of Renmin University, and China University of Political Science and Law.