Major Awards

  • Journal of Road Engineering, Top Paper Award, 2024. Co-recipients: Mohammadhosein Pourgholamali, Kumares Sinha.
  • Wilbur Smith Award for special contributions to the enhancement of the civil engineer's role in highway engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2025.
  • Mary Zimmerman Award for promoting creative thinking and outreach, Purdue University, 2024, Co-recipient: Richard Ajagu.
  • Matthew Karlaftis best paper award in ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2021, Co-recipients: Sikai Chen, Mohd Miralinaghi, Jiaxiao Feng, Zhirui Ye, & Jinling Chai.
  • Joseph M. Sussman Best Paper Prize, Frontiers in the Built Environment journal, 2021. Co-recipients: Mohammad Miralinaghi and Sania Seilabi.
  • D. Grant Mickle Award for Transportation Research Board (TRB) best journal paper in operations and maintenance, 2018. Co-recipients: Jon D. Fricker & Julie Qiao.
  • Frank Masters Award for innovations and contributions to the advancement of the knowledge and practice of transportation engineering, ASCE, 2014.
  • Best Paper Award, 10th International Conference, Institute for Infrastructure Resilience & Reconstruction Conference, 2014. Co-recipients: Michelle Dojutrek, Eric Dietz.
  • AASHTO Award for Best High Value Research Project, U.S. Region 3, team award, 2014.
  • Bravo Award (Purdue University) for authoring a textbook on civil engineering (CE) systems with profound impact on CE curricula at Purdue and other universities, 2014.
  • Roy and Myrna Wansik Award for Research Leadership, Purdue University, 2011.
  • K.B. Woods Award for Transportation Research Board (TRB), best journal paper in Design and Construction. Co-recipient: Chuanxin Fang, 2008.
  • Bryant Mather Award for Best Paper in Concrete Materials, awarded by the American Society of Testing & Materials (ASTM) at TRB 86th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 2007.
  • Milton Pikarski Award, for Best National Ph.D. Dissertation in Transportation (Science & Technology category) by the Council of University Transportation Centers 2002.