Ph.D. in Engineering, Associate Research Fellow, Master's Supervisor. Graduated from the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences & Ministry of Water Resources in 2022 (major: Geotechnical Engineering). Conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University from 2023 to 2026. Research focuses on disaster geography, disaster remote sensing (remote sensing image processing algorithms), and cryospheric disasters, with particular interest in the formation and evolution mechanisms of potential glacier hazard chain mega-disasters in high-altitude mountainous regions (Tibetan Plateau), and the development of new theories and methods for advanced risk identification. Selected for the International Organization IRDR Young Scientist Program. Has published 45 academic papers in authoritative remote sensing and disaster journals, with 14 as first/corresponding author. Served as guest editor for the Remote Sensing special issue on "Cryospheric Hazard Remote Sensing," and as a reviewer for top remote sensing and disaster journals including Remote Sensing of Environment, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Engineering Geology.
E-mail：
yaoli@scu.edu.cn
Representative research results
[1] Li Y, Cui Y, Hu X, et al. Glacier retreat in Eastern Himalaya drives catastrophic glacier hazard chain [J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2024, 51(8): e2024GL108202.
[2] Cui Y, Li Y*, Tang H, et al. A digital-twin platform for cryospheric disaster warning [J]. National Science Review, 2024, 11(10): nwae300.
[3] Li Y, Cui Y F, Hao J S, et al. Frequency and size change of ice–snow avalanches in the central Himalaya: a case from the Annapurna II glacier [J]. Advances in Climate Change Research, 2024, 15(3): 464-475.
[4] Guo J., Li Y.*, Hao J., Zhang Z., An integrated simulation–learning framework for rapid prediction of regional snow avalanche runout and hazard metrics [J], Engineering Geology, 2025, 108373.
[5] Li, Y., Wang, Z.*, Qiu, C., Wei, R., Guo, J., Wu, Z., Bazai, N. A., & Ye, C. Evolution of deep-seated bedrock landslides in a deep canyon [J]. Geomorphology, 2025. 109983.
[6] Li Y, Ye C, Ge Y, et al. Identifying building rooftops in hyperspectral imagery using CNN with pure pixel index [J]. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2021, 14: 12022-12034.
[7] Li Y, Cui P, Ye C, et al. Accurate prediction of earthquake-induced landslides based on deep learning considering landslide source area[J]. Remote sensing, 2021, 13(17): 3436.
[8] Ye C, Li Y*, Cui P, et al. Landslide Detection of Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data Based on Deep Learning With Constrains [J]. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2019, 12: 5047 - 5060.
[9] Wang, Z., Hu, K., Li, Z., Li, C., & Li, Y*. Calculation Method of Material Accumulation Rate at the Front of Trunk Glaciers Based on Satellite Monitoring [J]. Sustainability, 2023, 16(1): 284.
[10] Li Y, Cui Y, Li Z, et al. Dynamic evolution analysis and monitoring early warning scheme of glacial debris flows in the Linzhi section of the Sichuan-Tibet transportation corridor [J]. Journal of Earth Sciences, 2022.
[11] Wei R, Li Y, Li Y, et al. A universal adapter in segmentation models for transferable landslide mapping [J]. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2024, 218: 446-465.
[12] Wang H, Cui P, Li Y, et al. Rock and ice avalanche-generated catastrophic debris flow at Chamoli, 7 February 2021: New insights from the geomorphic perspective [J]. Geomorphology, 2024, 452: 109110.
[13] Wei R, Ye C, Sui T, Zhang H, Ge Y, & Li, Y. A feature enhancement framework for landslide detection [J]. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2023, 124: 103521.
[14] Wei R, Ye C, Ge, Y, Li Y, & Li J. Dynamic graph attention networks for point cloud landslide segmentation [J]. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2023, 124: 103542.
[15] Cui Y, Fang J, Li Y, et al. Assessing effectiveness of a dual-barrier system for mitigating granular flow hazards through DEM-DNN framework [J]. Engineering Geology, 2022, 306: 106742.
[16] Bazai N A, Cui P, Liu D, Carling P A, Wang H, Zhang, G, Li Y. & Hassan, J. Glacier surging controls glacier lake formation and outburst floods: The example of the Khurdopin Glacier, Karakoram [J]. Global and Planetary Change, 2022, 208: 103710.
[17] Hu X, Xue L, Yu Y, Guo S, Cui Y, Li Y, & Qi S. Remote sensing characterization of mountain excavation and city construction in Loess Plateau [J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2021, 48(21): e2021GL095230.
[18] Ye C, Li Y, Zhao L, Deng D, Liang L, Miao F, Chen L. Vegetation Index Calculation Method Based on Comprehensive Absorption Capacity, Invention Patent (ZL 201510852943.1)
[19] Ye C, Li Y. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Geological Disaster Information Extraction System V1.0, Software Copyright (2015SR1853715)
[20] Zhang, J., Li, Y., Cui, Y., Wu, Z., Xue, Y., Cheng, J., Hu, J., Li Y., ... & Luo, A. (2025). Unity of terrestrial and extraterrestrial soils in granular configuration. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 654, 119239.
Awards
(1) 2026 Geographical Information Science and Technology Progress Award, Second Prize (R10)
Scientific research project
(1) General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2027.1–2030.12, Ongoing, Principal Investigator
(2) Sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, 2025.1–2027.12, Ongoing, Principal Investigator
(3) Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024.1–2025.12, Completed, Principal Investigator
(4) China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Grant, 2024.1–2025.12, Completed, Principal Investigator
(5) Major Special Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology – "The Second Comprehensive Scientific Expedition to the Tibetan Plateau, Task 9: Comprehensive Disaster Risk Assessment and Mitigation," 2022.11–2024.10, Completed, Participant
(6) General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2022.1–2025.12, Completed, Participant
(7) General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2021.1–2024.12, Completed, Participant
Cultivation of talents
Serves as a Master's supervisor in Safety Science and Disaster Mitigation. Teaches "3S Technology and Applications," and participates in teaching graduate and doctoral courses including "Introduction to Comprehensive Disaster Science" and "Frontiers in Safety Science and Disaster Mitigation."
We welcome students with backgrounds in Physical Geography, Remote Sensing and Surveying, Geotechnical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or Computer Science (Machine Learning/Deep Learning) to apply for Master's programs. The research group focuses on the formation, evolution, and trend prediction of glacier hazard chains in High Mountain Asia, maintaining close collaborative relationships with domestic and international peers at Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), and the University of Potsdam.
We sincerely invite outstanding young scholars with strong research commitment and a dedication to serving China's disaster prevention and mitigation efforts to join our team. We provide opportunities for participation in international academic conferences and exchange visits to leading research institutions worldwide.
