Dr. Qiu received his B.S. degree in hydraulic engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 2000 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering with a focus in geotechnical engineering from UCLA in 2002 and 2005, respectively. Before joining the faculty at The Pennsylvania State University in 2010, he was a project engineer in southern California and a faculty member at Clarkson University. Dr. Qiu was an associate editor for the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE, and the International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, from 2014 to 2023. He was an elected board member of the United States Universities Council on Geotechnical Education and Research. Dr. Qiu received the Excellent Paper Award from the International Journal of Geomechanics, ASCE, and the Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation and is an elected Fellow of ASCE.