Hoe I. Ling

Ling collaborates actively with international institutions and agencies and has made several reconnaissance trips related to the typhoon and earthquake disasters. He received the Career Award from the National Science Foundation in 2001 and was a recipient of the IGS Award (given every four years) from the International Geosynthetics Society in 2014, and the Aitalyev Medal from the Kazakhstan Geotechnical Society in 2013. Ling has also been conferred honoraries from international institutions: an Honorary Professorship from Shijiazhuang Railway Institute (China) in 2014 and a University Honorary Medal from Eurasian National University (Kazakhstan) in 2015.

Ling is the editor-in-chief for Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology, associate editor for the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, as well as an editorial board member for several other journals. He serves on several technical committees in the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute, and ASCE Geo-Institute. Ling has published extensively in major journals and conferences, with over 100 journal papers and 120 conference publications. He has also organized several major conferences in New York City (Biot 2009) and abroad (such as Rome 2006 and Bologna 2013).

Ling obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Kyoto University, Japan (1988), and his master's (1990) and doctoral degrees (1993) from the University of Tokyo. He became a visiting/research assistant professor, and subsequently assistant professor at the University of Delaware (1994-1998). He joined Columbia University in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2007. He was a visiting associate professor at Harvard University in spring 2006 and he holds several visiting positions in universities in China and Kazakhstan.