Principal Investigator


Min Liew
Assistant Professor
Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering
The Ohio State University

Education
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2022
M.S., Civil Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2018
B.S., Civil Engineering (cum laude), University of California, Los Angeles

Professional Appointments
2023 – Present     Assistant Professor, Ohio State
2016 – 2016            Staff Geotechnical Engineer, VO Engineering, Inc., San Diego

Biography
Dr. Liew holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from UCLA. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering at Ohio State. Her research interests include permafrost and cold regions geotechnics, climate change-related geohazards, and climate-resilient and sustainable civil infrastructure.

Awards and Honors

2021

Permafrost Engineering Education Program (PEEP) Award (Best Recorded Talk), United States Permafrost Association (USPA)

2021

NSF Fellowship for Mechanistic Machine Learning and Digital Twins for Computational Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, San Diego, California (hybrid mode), September 26–29, 2021

2021

James E. Marley Graduate Fellowship in Engineering, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

2021

Professional Development Grant, Women in Deep Foundations, Deep Foundations Institute Educational Trust

2021

Leo P. Russell Graduate Fellowship, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

2021

ASCE Central Pennsylvania Student Award 

2020

Grant Award for the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL) by the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Pennsylvania

2020

Mark E. and Claire L. Alpert Graduate Fellowship, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

2019

Early Career Researcher Travel Award, Arctic Futures 2050 Conference, Washington, D.C., 4–6 September 2019

2018

Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award, The Pennsylvania State University