Alumna Xin Ma (CE MS'16) receives the Younger Members Award (YMA) from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI).
The purpose of the Younger Members Award (YMA) is to recognize a younger member who has demonstrated exceptional engagement and contributions to the EERI Younger Members Committee (YMC) and also to other EERI programs, committees, and projects. Presentation of the YMA Award will take place Thursday, March 7, 2019 at the EERI Honors Ceremony and Annual Business Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Xin Ma (M.EERI,2016) is a Geotechnical Engineer with the Geotechnical & Tunneling Technical Excellence Center of WSP USA in NYC. Her main areas of expertise include performance and risk-based design, seismic hazard analysis, geotechnical field investigations, construction support systems, and slope stability analysis. In her career as an engineer, she has worked on projects in New York City and Mexico City including a massive tunnel transportation project, an airport terminal building and breakwater design for disaster prevention.