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Dr. Chansheng He is a  University Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor at School of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability at Western Michigan University. He is an elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), fellow of American Association of Geographers (AAG), and has received a number of national and international awards, including Distinguished Fulbright - University of Leeds (UK)Scholar Award (one of 38 Distinguished Scholars out of 440 Fulbright scholars globally in 2022) , three U.S. Department of State Senior Fulbright Senior Specialist Awards, AAG Water Resources Specialty Group Distinguished Career Award in Water Resources,  and U.S. National Research Council /NOAA Senior Research Associateship Award. He serves on the editorial boards of several international journals such as Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, and Geography and Sustainability.

His research encompasses watershed hydrology, nonpoint source pollution, watershed resources management, and comparative analysis of Sino-U.S. water resource policies, but  mainly focuses on integration of in situ observations, remote sensing, GIS, and simulation models to better observe, understand, and analyze how land use/cover change resulting from human- environmental interactions affects the watershed hydrological processes and water cycles at multiple spatial scales. The ArcView Nonpoint Source Pollution Modeling (AVNPSM) software he developed for hydrological and nonpoint source pollution modeling has been applied in 12 countries. The Distributed Large Basin Runoff Model (DLBRM), developed in collaboration with the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has been successfully applied to over 40 North America's Great Lakes watersheds, and watersheds in Northwest China and other countries. He pioneered research on quantifying the impacts of soil heterogeneity on watershed hydrological processes. In recent years, he focuses on defining and promoting watershed science to link hydrological research and decision making to provide a complementary approach to the existing water management programs in addressing the current global water crisis and achieving the UN SDGs. He has published over 130 articles in leading national and international journals and authored/co-authored 11 books. He is a proponent of international collaborations and has been conducting collaborative research with scholars from China, Germany, Iran, Romania, South Africa, Turkey, and UK, etc., and has invited over 40 international scholars to the U.S. for academic exchange. He has given keynote speeches at 13 international conferences and nearly 170 invited lectures at institutions in China, Germany, Peru, Romania, Taiwan, U.K., the U.S., and Uzbekistan. He has held adjunct appointments at international institutions such as Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou University, University of Bucharest, Romania, and University of Leeds, UK. He is a reviewer for over 20 international funding agencies in Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Romania, UK, and the U.S., and for >50 journals.