Mingtao DING, a male from Rizhao, Shandong, China, holds a PhD degree and serves as a professor and doctoral supervisor at Southwest Jiaotong University. He is a reserve candidate for academic and technological leaders in Sichuan Province and a high-level overseas returnee talent in Sichuan. He has long been engaged in research on the human-land relationship between geological disasters and rural settlements. He has undertaken and presided over more than 40 scientific research projects, including 9 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (1 youth project, 3 general projects, 2 special projects, and 3 international cooperation and exchange projects), as well as 2 sub-projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. He has published more than 100 academic papers, including over 30 papers indexed by SCI. He has been granted 8 national invention patents and 6 software copyrights. He has co-authored 3 academic books. He was selected into the Sichuan Provincial Outstanding Young Academic and Technological Leaders Cultivation Program and won the 14th Sichuan Provincial Youth Science and Technology Award.