Dr. Yangyang Li is a lecturer of the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University. She was awarded with SM2 scholarship from Ministry of Education (MOE), to pursue her degree in Singapore. She received her B.Eng. in Civil Engineering (1^st class honor) from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2015. In the same year, she started her interdisciplinary PhD study in Geotechnical Engineering at NTU. During her Ph.D., she was offered opportunities to join various global fellows programmes from the United Nations Univeristy, Imperial College, and TUM, from which she gained more interest and passion towards sustainability and future cities. Before joining Monash in 2023, she has been a research fellow at NTU since 2020. She has very broad research interests and experience. Her recent research work includes the use of remote sensing, and street view imagery data in urban studies and the application of machine learning and GIS techniques in addition to the physically-based models in unsaturated soil database development and landslides susceptibility mapping.