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.