Xiangdong Lei is a professor of Forest management in the Institute of Forest Resource Information Techniques (IFRIT), Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF). His research interests cover forest growth yield and modeling, multiple-functional forest management, and forest inventory. He had been as the Chief Technical Advisor of multiple use forestry demonstration project fund by the APFNet. He published more than 130 research papers and book chapters. He is the PI of national key R&D project “Forest site quality evaluation and muti-functional and full cycle forest management “.