Visiting distinguished chair professor

Philip Li-Fa Liu

Visiting distinguished chair professor

Office：4F 4681B

Extension: 63240
Email：philip.liu@nus.edu.sg

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Education：

B.S. (Civil Engineering), National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1968
S.M. (Civil Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971
ScD. (Hydrodynamics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974

Specialties：

water wave theories, tsunamis dynamics, wave-breaking processes, sediment transport processes, and interactions of water waves with structures

∙ 1969 - 1974: Research Assistant, Department of Civil Engineering, MIT.
∙ 1974 – 2017: Assistant Professor (1974 – 79), Associate Professor (1979 – 83), Professor (1983 –
2017), Class of 1912 Professor of Engineering (2008 - 2017), School of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Cornell.
∙ 1977 (July – December): Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University
of Delaware.
∙ 1980 - 1981: Guggenheim Fellow and Visiting Associate at W.M. Keck Laboratory, Caltech.
∙ 1985 - 1986: Associate Director, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell.
∙ 1986 - 1987: Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, College of Engineering, Cornell.
∙ 1987 (August - December): Visiting Scientist, Delft Hydraulics Laboratory.
∙ 1988 (January – June): Visiting Professor, Institute of Hydrodynamics, Technical University of
Denmark.
∙ 1994 (January): Visiting Fellow, Osaka City University, Japan.
∙ 1994 (September) – 1995 (August): Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National
∙ Taiwan University.
∙ 2000 (January): Visiting Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National University of
Singapore, Singapore.
∙ 2001 (September) – 2006 (August): Graduate Field Professor, College of Engineering, Oregon State University.
∙ 2002 (February – May): Visiting Professor, Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies
(IMEDEA), CSIC - Universidad de las Islas Baleares, Spain.
∙ 2003 – 2006: Adjunct Professor, Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore,
Singapore.
∙ 2007 (April) – now: Kwoh-Ting Li Chair Professor, National Central University, Taiwan.
∙ 2008 (July – December): National Science Council Chair Professor, National Central University,
Taiwan.
∙ 2008 (January – June): Guest Professor, Leichtweiss-Institut für Wasserbau, Technische Universität
Braunschweig, Germany.
∙ 2009 (July) – 2015 (July): Director, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell.
∙ 2015 (August) – 2019 (July): Vice President (Research and Technology), National University of
Singapore.
∙ 2015 (August) – now: Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering.
∙ 2017 (July) – now: Class of 1912 Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Cornell University.