{"id":71,"date":"2018-05-10T06:13:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T06:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/?page_id=71"},"modified":"2025-02-22T04:38:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T12:38:20","slug":"cheng-lin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/cheng-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheng Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng Lin, Ph.D., P.Eng.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Associate Professor<\/p>\n<p>University of Victoria (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Department of Civil Engineering (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/engineering\/civil\/index.php\">link<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) 424<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Tel: (+1) 250 472 5843<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:chenglin918@uvic.ca\">chenglin918@uvic.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. (honors), Civil Engineering, University of Kansas, USA, 2012<\/li>\n<li>MS, Geotechnical Engineering, Hohai University, P. R. China, 2007<\/li>\n<li>BS (honors), Geological Engineering, Hohai University, P. R. China, 2004<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Professor, University of Victoria, 2022\/7-present<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor, University of Victoria, 2016\/10 &#8211; 2022\/6<\/li>\n<li>Project Geotechnical Engineer II, Terracon Consultants, Inc., 2015\/4 \u20132016\/10<\/li>\n<li>Project Geotechnical Engineer I, Terracon Consultants, Inc., 2013\/4 \u20132015\/4<\/li>\n<li>Staff Geotechnical Engineer, Terracon Consultants, Inc., 2012\/3 \u20132013\/4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>HONORS\/AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geosynthetics Award, The Canadian Geotechnical Society, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Alberta Minister&#8217;s Awards for Tranpsortation Innovation, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Top reviewer for Computers and Geotechnics, 2022 (received in 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding reviewer for Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2021, 2022, and 2023<\/li>\n<li>W.E. Cowie Innovation Award, Faculty of Engineering, University of Victoria, 2020<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Engineering Awards, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding reviewer for ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>PROFESSIONAL<\/b><strong>\u00a0SERVICES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chair, Soil Mechanics &amp; Foundations Division, Canadian Geotechnical Society (Jan 2025- )<\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor, Environmental Geotechnics (Jan 2024- )<\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor, Canadian Geotechnical Journal (May 2023- )<\/li>\n<li>Associate Editor, Frontiers in Built Environment-Geotechnical Engineering (Aug 2022- )<\/li>\n<li>Member &amp; International Executive Editor, \u00a0the Editorial Board of Southern Energy Construction (Oct 2018- )<\/li>\n<li>Past Chair, Education Committee, Canadian Geotechnical Society (Jan 2023-Dec 2024)<\/li>\n<li>Member, Committee of Geotechnics of Soil Erosion, ASCE Geo-Institute<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheng Lin, Ph.D., P.Eng. Associate Professor University of Victoria (link) Department of Civil Engineering (link) Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) 424 Tel: (+1) 250 472 5843 Email: chenglin918@uvic.ca EDUCATION Ph.D. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6591,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/clin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}