Wangping Li is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on cryosphere science, remote sensing, permafrost environments, and thermokarst geomorphology. His research interests include Earth observation of cold-region environments, monitoring of permafrost degradation, thermokarst lake dynamics, and cryosphere–hydrology interactions using multi-source remote sensing technologies, including optical remote sensing, SAR/InSAR, and machine learning approaches. He has conducted research on environmental changes in high-altitude and cold-region areas, particularly focusing on the response of permafrost landscapes and thermokarst lakes to climate change. His representative work, entitled “High-precision extraction and dynamics of thermokarst lakes in the Three Rivers Source Region using the SVM coupled edge-OTSU based on Sentinel-1 data”, was published in Catena in 2026, where he served as the first author. His research contributes to advancing remote sensing-based monitoring and understanding of cryosphere changes and water-related environmental processes.