Wang Xinyuan is a Professor of CBAS. He is also serving as Deputy Director of International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage under the Auspices of UNESCO (HIST), Chairman of Digital Heritage Specialized Committee of China National Committee, International Society for Digital Earth(ISDE), Co-Chair of the Heritage Working Group of the Digital Belt and Road Initiative(DBAR), Member of International Council on Monuments and Sites(ICOMOS), Executive Member of ICOMOS-China, Member of the world heritage Expert Committee of the State Forestry and Grass Administration of China. Prof. Wang is engaged in the research of remote sensing archaeology and digital heritage conservation and utilization. He is one of the pioneers of the theory and practice of space archaeology. In 2013, his research result named "Remote Sensing Exploration of the Silk Road to Discover More than 10 Ancient Sites in Guazhou, Gansu Province, China" was selected as the top ten remote sensing events in China from 2012 to 2013. In 2018, he leaded his team discovered 10 ancient Roman archaeological sites in Tunisia. His current work focuses on adapting Big Earth Data technologies to meet the SDG11.4 assessment needs along Belt and Road. Prof. Wang also conducts interdisciplinary work combining remote sensing, geography, geology, archaeology and other fields of study to assess spatial-temporal patterns of cultural and natural heritage disaster risk. He had published More than 170 academic papers and 5 books, and published the map of "Context Environment of World Cultural Heritage Sites along the Silk Road".