Lizzie Song is a Fellow of the Center for Buildings, Infrastructure and Public Space and enrolled in the Master’s Degree program for Construction Engineering & Management at the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science of Columbia University. Her undergraduate degree was a B.E. in Structural Engineering from the Wuhan University of Technology in Wuhan, China, conferred in 2018. She was the Outstanding Engineer of Wuhan University awarded by CSCEC, the China State Construction Engineering Corporation. Recently she was selected as a Forbes Under 30 Scholar.
She has significant experience working as an intern at the Central-South Architectural Design Institute where she concentrated on project design. Her internship at the China State Construction Engineering Corporation focused on project management of the largest underground transportation commercial complex in Optical Valley, Wuhan.
Her research interests have centered on civil engineering materials, truss structure modifications, as well as fire hazard and auxiliary system design. At CBIPS she will be participating in the research efforts pertaining to the cyber security for infrastructure, as well as an analysis of investment issues of infrastructure maintenance and operations.