Dr. Liu is an Arthur C. Nauman Endowed Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering Excellence Faculty Scholar at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.​

Dr. Wen-Tso Liu holds a B.S. (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan) in Civil Engineering, an M.S. (Rutgers University) in Environmental Science, an MEng (University of California at Berkeley) in Environmental Engineering, and Ph.D. (University of Tokyo, 1995) in Urban Engineering. He has been a professor at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois since 2008.  Prior to 2008, Dr. Liu served as a professor at National Central University, Taiwan (1998-01) and at National University of Singapore (2001-08).  He also worked as a post-doctoral scientist at Michigan State University (1995-97) and Northwestern University (1997-98).