Dr. Kam Ng obtained all three degrees (BS, MS, and PhD) in Civil Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Before his PhD study in 2008, he had four years of consulting and six years of construction experience. He received the 2012 Soil Mechanics Best Paper Award from the Transportation Research Board and the 2013 Young Professor Paper Award, runner-up, from the Deep Foundation Institute (DFI). He received the 2022 Samuel Hakes Outstanding Graduate Research and Teaching Award and the 2022 UW Mid-Career Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. He was the recipient of UW Provost’s Term Professor (2023 to 2025) and Hoy Engineering Fellow (2024 to 2026). He is a Professional Engineering registered with the state of Wyoming. His research focuses on sustainable geotechnical aspects of highway and energy infrastructure, particularly coal-derived materials, hydrogen storage, foundation engineering, pavement foundation, abutment scour, soil/rock mechanics, geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, and slope engineering.
