Min Liu, Ph.D., F.ASCE, the Abdallah H. Yabroudi Endowed Professor in Sustainable Civil Infrastructure and director of the Syracuse University Infrastructure Institute at Syracuse University, has been named a fellow by the ASCE Board of Direction.
Liu’s research has advanced the understanding and practice of construction planning, productivity, and workflow reliability. A central theme of her work is using empirical production data to investigate how construction project performance is shaped not only by engineering processes but also by how people communicate, collaborate, and make decisions. Her research has examined workflow variability and labor productivity, social networks among construction trades, time buffers and uncertainty, collaborative scheduling, and the effectiveness of construction planning meetings. More recently, she has extended this human-and-engineering perspective to construction worker mental health and emerging technologies, including large language models, knowledge graphs, graph neural networks, and smart contracts for construction and infrastructure decision-making.
Her research has received the 2021 ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize, the 2018 International Group for Lean Construction Best Paper Award, and the 2017 Lean and Computing in Construction Congress Best Paper Award.
Over the past 20 years, she has advised and mentored graduate and undergraduate students who have gone on to successful careers and leadership roles in academia and industry, including at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Liu has held several leadership roles within ASCE. She chaired the ASCE Construction Research Council in 2020-21 after serving as secretary and vice chair. Since 2024, she has chaired the ASCE Street and Highway Operations Committee after four years as vice chair. She has served as an associate specialty editor of ASCE’s Journal of Management in Engineering since 2016. She has also held editorial roles with the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management since 2009, first as assistant specialty editor and, since 2025, as associate specialty editor. In 2021, she was recognized by the ASCE Construction Institute in their Women Leaders in Construction honor. She also co-founded the Lean Construction Institute–Carolinas Community of Practice.
Before joining Syracuse University in 2022, Liu spent 15 years on the faculty of North Carolina State University, where she became an associate professor and Edward I. Weisiger Distinguished Scholar. She was also a visiting professor in Digital Twin Construction at the University of Cambridge in 2022.
Liu earned her doctoral degree in civil and environmental engineering, with a focus on engineering project management, from the University of California, Berkeley.
