Pengcheng Gao was born in Inner Mongolia, China, in 1994. He received his M.Eng. degree in water conservancy and hydropower engineering in 2018 from Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, China. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in water conservancy and hydropower engineering at the College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. His current research interests include local scour of bridge piers under ice cover and numerical simulation techniques.