Dr. Jenny Liu

Keynote lecture title:  Developing Stone Matrix Asphalt and High-Quality Hot Mix Asphalt Mixtures with 

Locally Available Coarse Aggregates

Dr. Jenny Liu is James A. Heidman Professor in Civil Engineering at the Missouri S&T. She received her PhD degree from Texas A&M University. Prior to joining S&T, she was a professor at University of Alaska Fairbanks and Founding Director of Center for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation in Cold Climates (CESTiCC). Her research focuses on engineering characterization and modeling of infrastructure materials, pavement design, performance evaluation and testing, pavement preservation, non-destructive testing, and pavement management system (PMS). She has secured over $15 million funding for about 50 research projects in these areas sponsored by US DOT, State DOTs, DOE, local government, and industry. She is currently the President of IACIP, Immediate Past Chair of ASCE Bituminous Materials Committee, Committee Communications Coordinator of TRB Pavement Preservation Committee, and an Associate Editor of three ASCE Journals (Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, Journal of Transportation Engineering Part B: Pavements, and Journal of Cold Regions Engineering), and a member of several ASCE and TRB committees. Her work has been recognized by several awards including 2019 S&T Faculty Research Award, three times of Best Paper award from international conferences, two times of ASCE Outstanding Reviewer, and 2016 Engineer of the Year of Alaska Society of Professional Engineers Fairbanks Chapter. She is a licensed PE in Alaska.