Member Bios for 2022-2024
Ashe Cooper
Ashe is a graduate from The University of Auckland in New Zealand with a BE (Hons) in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Ashe specialized in Geotechnical Engineering and soil mechanics. After graduating, Ashe joined Beca and has been a part of an ever-growing geotechnical team working on a variety of land development and infrastructure projects across the public and private sector. Aseh has been a part of the YMPG since 2017 and is looking forward to the challenge of chairing the committee.
Ashe has done further study in entrepreneurship through MIT and QUT as well as maori language at AUT in New Zealand. Ashe has also been involved with the instrumentation and monitoring (I&M) business at Beca.
In his free time, Ashe enjoys heading away on the weekend, getting out on the water, and snowboarding.
Judy Eid
As a young Geotechnical Engineer, I consider myself to have a responsibility toward my community. Not only am I keen on succeeding in my career path, but I am determined to set an example for the independent woman who works hard to achieve her ambitions. I grew up in Lebanon and pursued a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Throughout my time in Lebanon, I was a witness to many engineering failures in buildings and infrastructure and I understood that these catastrophic failures were due to a lack of responsibility and knowledge of the basic civil engineering consideration. I consider myself to have a responsibility to educate myself and advocate for the best practices of safety in engineering design and application. As such, I am working on tailoring my professional and technical skills by enhancing my experience in the field of geotechnical engineering by perusing a masters degree in Soil Mechanics and Environmental Geotechnics at Imperial College London.
Ezra Y. S. Tjung
Ezra is currently an Engineer at Exponent in Oakland, California, USA. He has several years of geotechnical consulting experience including in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hong Kong and Indonesia. Passionate about teaching, Ezra is also serving as a Lecturer of the Structural and Geotechnical Department at the Calvin Institute Technology in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is returning for a second term as a Core Member of the YMPG Committee, after a much enjoyable first term.
Ezra completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley (2020) in geotechnical engineering, with a focus on numerical modeling with the Material Point Method and applications to 3D landslides and dam failures. Prior to that, he obtained his MS (2016) in geotechnical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and his BEng (2014) in Civil and Structural Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
The San Francisco Bay Area is the 6th city Ezra has ever lived in (each city for more than 3 years the others being Jakarta, Palembang, Tangerang, Singapore and Hong Kong). He enjoys photography, Christian theology, plays the piano, sings in choir and a die-hard Liverpool fans.
Mario Terceros
In 2015 and 2017, Mario participated in the Congreso Internacion de Fundaciones Profundas de Bolivia (2nd and 3rd CFPB) as a member of the organization board and field expositor. At the time he realized the scarcity of engineers interested in Geotechnics, but also realized the thirst of knowledge and curiosity of the young students and engineers, which motivated him to get involved with the ISSMGE. This will be his fourth term serving the ISSMGEs Young Member Presidential Group (YMPG), a role he enjoys with a lot of enthusiasm.
He earned his Bachelor of Science in the Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM, Mexico) in 2013. During a one year exchange program in the Technical University of Munich, his realized his interest on geotechnics and deep foundation engineer. He proceeded to take all the available geotechnical courses of the program and later prolonged his stay in Germany in order to take up an internship with BAUER Gmbh. Since 2014, He has been working in INCOTEC S.A., a construction company specialized in geotechnics and deep foundations. In June 2020, He just finished his Masters degree in Geotechnics Engineering in the Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca, Bolivia, with a research on the use of Expander Body technology (a deep foundation toe enhancer device) and its effect in the rigidity of the element.
In his free time, Marco enjoys outdoor sports like mountain biking, running, and climbing.
Bridget Lokoe
Bridget Nana Ama Lokoe is a Civil Engineer. She obtained her Bachelors of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana.
Bridget has relevant experience in the Transportation, Power, Mining and Building and Infrastructure sectors through the West African regions and she currently works as a geotechnical and tailings engineer.
Bridget enjoys travelling and listening to music. She spends most of her free time with her family.
Mingliang Zhou
Minglinag is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Geotechnical engineering department at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Mingliang obtained his BA (2010), MEng (2011), and Ph.D. degrees (2016) from the University of Cambridge, UK. His research interest is using advanced techniques to analyze multiphysics processes in geotechnical infrastructures. He has established a reputation for using computer vision and deep learning techniques to solve practical geotechnical problems.
He has been awarded two national-level grants from China and led eight high-profile geotechnical consulting projects in China, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the UK. In addition, he has published more than 30 journal papers and served as guest editor and reviewer for several top-tier journals.
Mingliang is passionate about organizing exciting events to deliver the latest technology and research frontier to the young member of the geotechnical community. Apart from his involvement in the YMPG of ISSMGE, he is also actively involved in other technical committee events and served as a corresponding member in TC222 and TC 309.
