Jia-Liang Le is currently Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his Bachelor (First Class Honors) in civil engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2003, a Master of Engineering from NUS in 2005, and a PhD in structural mechanics from Northwestern University, Illinois in 2010. He received the Undergraduate Faculty Award from the University of Minnesota, the Best Paper Award of the 48th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, and the 2015 Young Investigator Award from the US Army Research Office. His research interests include fracture mechanics, probabilistic mechanics, scaling, and structural reliability. He has authored three book chapters and more than forty refereed journal articles.
