About
A PhD student who enrolled in 2025, studying satellite altimetry and snow and ice hydrology.
First-author papers apply machine learning to identify debris-covered glaciers in western China and snow cover in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region, and to develop a forest fire prediction model for southwestern China. A co-authored paper published in 2026 analysed elevation-dependent differences in snowmelt contributions in the central Tibetan Plateau.
Publications and books
Zixiang Li, Hongyi Li*, Weixin Xu*, Yaru Yang, Rui He, Yiwei Liu, Yuanbao Feng, Na Dai. (2026). Abrupt shift in elevation-dependent snowmelt contribution in the Central Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 66, 103634. DOI
He R, Shangguan DH, Zhao QD, et al. (2024). Effective Identification of Debris-Covered Glaciers in Western China Using Multiple Machine-Learning Algorithms. Science of the Total Environment, 955, 176946.
He R, Qin Y, Zhao QD, et al. (2023). Effective Improvement of the Accuracy of Snow Cover Discrimination Using a Random Forests Algorithm Considering Multiple Factors: A Case Study of the Three-Rivers Headwater Region, Tibet Plateau. Remote Sensing, 15, 4644.
He Rui, Lu Heng, Jin Zizhen, et al. (2023). Development of a Random-Forest Model for Predicting Forest Fire Occurrence in Southwestern China and Its Driving Factors. Acta Ecologica Sinica, 43(22), 9356-9370.
Software Copyright
- Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhao Qiudong; He Rui. Software for a Machine-Learning-Based Forest Fire Occurrence Prediction Model for Southwestern China, V1.0.
Awards and Honours
- Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Higher Education Institutions (2025)
- National Scholarship for Master’s Students (2023 and 2024)
- “Merit Student”, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, academic year 2022–2023 (2023)
- Outstanding Poster Award, 6th National Symposium on Quantitative Remote Sensing (2023)