Prof. Dr. Honglan Ji currently works as a professor at the College of Water Conservancy and Civil Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, China. She is also the director of the doctoral degree program in civil engineering and water conservancy, the director of the secondary discipline of water conservancy engineering and water conservancy and hydropower, the director of the national first-class undergraduate major of water conservancy and hydropower engineering, and a member of the college's professorial committee. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Farmland Water Conservancy Engineering at Inner Mongolia Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College and a Master's degree and Ph.D. in Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. For many years, she has been engaged in teaching and scientific research in the fields of river ice hydraulics, river ice processes in cold regions, safety and protection of cold river channels, and mechanics of river sediment movement. At present, her main research work focuses on studying ice changes, riverbed evolution, and embankment collapse in the Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River through different methods such as field experiments, physical models, numerical simulations, and remote sensing.