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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 the 38 Distinguished 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   Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, and Geography and Sustainability.

His research encompasses watershed hydrology, nonpoint source pollution, and watershed resources management, but  mainly focuses on integration of in situ observations, remote sensing, GIS, and simulation models to understand and analyze how human activities affect 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 other 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 other countries. 

He pioneered research on quantifying the impacts of soil heterogeneity on watershed hydrological processes, including identifying and quantifying the contribution of preferential flow to groundwater flow. He developed an analytical framework for systematically analyzing the impact and feedbacks of climate change and human activities, particularly large-scale ecological restoration on hydrological processes and water cycles in dry regions. In recent years, he focuses on defining and promoting the theory of watershed science to couple science, technology, society, politics, policy, and management to tackle global water challenges and to achieve UN SDGs. He has published over 140 journal 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, Romania, South Africa,  and UK, etc.