Erol Tutumluer

Education

• Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995
• M.S. Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993
• M.S. Civil Engineering, Duke University, 1991
• B.S. Civil Engineering, Bogazici University, 1989

Biography

Erol Tutumluer holds a B.S. (Bogazici University 1989), two M.S. degrees (Duke University 1991 and Georgia Tech 1993), and a Ph.D. (Georgia Tech 1995), all in civil engineering. He has been on the faculty of the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois since 1996. Dr. Tutumluer was recognized as Paul F. Kent Endowed Faculty Scholar in 2006 and as Abel Bliss Professor in Engineering in 2020 for his research and scholarly accomplishments in the CEE department. Professor Tutumluer also serves as the Director of International and ZJUI Education Programs for the department.

Dr. Tutumluer has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in transportation soils engineering, subgrade soil and aggregate behavior and stabilization, introduction to transportation engineering, pavement analysis and design, airport facilities design, and transportation infrastructure for smart mobility.

Dr. Tutumluer has research interests and expertise in characterization of pavement and railroad track geomaterials, i.e., subgrade soils and base/ballast unbound aggregates, soil/aggregate stabilization, geosynthetics, advanced imaging techniques and applications of artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques to transportation infrastructure, structural health monitoring of transportation facilities using sensors, modeling granular foundation systems using innovative techniques, sustainable use of foundation geomaterials and construction practices for transportation infrastructure, discrete element analysis of ballast, dynamic response measurement and analyses of track systems, and mechanistic analysis and design.

Since he started as a faculty member at UIUC in 1996, Dr. Tutumluer has served as an investigator on over 125 research projects and graduated 27 PhD and 47 MS students and authored/co-authored over 400 peer reviewed publications from his research projects. Dr. Tutumluer is a Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Transportation Geotechnics Elsevier journal and the immediate past Chair of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee 202 on Transportation Geotechnics; he served as TC202 Chair from 2013 until 2022. Dr. Tutumluer is a member of the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) and Geo-Institute and served as Chair of the ASCE Geo-Institute’s Pavements Committee (2006-2012). He is a member of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA) Committee 1 on Roadway and Ballast. As a Council Member (2020-2026) of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), Dr. Tutumluer currently serves as Chair of the IGS Technical Committee on Stabilization (TC-S). Dr. Tutumluer is an Executive Board Member of the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB’s) Transportation Infrastructure Group, served as the Chair of TRB’s AKG00 Geology and Geotechnical Engineering Section in 2016-2023, and the Chair of TRB’s AFP70 Aggregates Committee in 2011-2016.

Dr. Tutumluer was the 2000 recipient of the TRB’s Fred Burgraff award for Excellence in Transportation Research; he also received TRB’s Geology and Earth Materials Section Best Paper Awards in 2009, 2012 and 2019, and TRB’s Soil Mechanics Section Best Paper Award in 2016. He was selected and honored with Yangtze River Scholar Award by China Ministry of Education in 2016. Dr. Tutumluer received Qiushi Distinguished Professor title bestowed upon him by Zhejiang University and delivered the Zeng Guoxi honor lecture in China in 2019. Dr. Tutumluer is the 2020 recipient of the ASCE T&DI James Laurie Prize in recognition of his career accomplishments for promoting Transportation Geotechnics field and the 2021 recipient of ASCE Geo-Institute’s Carl L. Monismith Lecture Award. In 2023, Dr. Tutumluer received an IGS Award in recognition of his significant contributions towards the use of geosynthetics in roadways, railways, and airfields. In 2024, Dr. Tutumluer received the ASCE T&DI Francis C. Turner Award for his contributions to the advancement of the knowledge and practice of transportation engineering and delivered the 5th Ralph R. Proctor Named Lecture of the ISSMGE.

Academic Positions

• Director of ZJUI Education Programs, April 2020-present
• Director of International Programs, March 2011-present
• Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Aug. 2008- present
• Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Aug. 2002-Aug. 2008
• Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Aug. 1996-Aug. 2002
• Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois Jan. 1996-Aug. 1996

Major Consulting Activities

• Australian Chapter of International Geosynthetics Society (ACIGS), Victoria, Australia
• Brick and Byte, Inc., Ashburn, Virginia
• Federal Highway Engineering, Turner Fairbank Research Center, Virginia
• High Performance Technologies, Inc., Herndon, Virginia
• Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
• National Cooperative Highway Research Program, National Academies, Washington, DC Consultant for the 2011 NCHRP Synthesis, Topic 43-03 Granular Aggregate Base Practices, and 2016 NCHRP Synthesis, Topic 48-10 Aggregate Quality Requirements for Pavements
• National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association (NSSGA), Alexandria, Virginia
• Quality Engineering Solutions, Inc., Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania
• Quality Engineering Solutions, Inc., Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania
• Tensar International, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
• Transportation Engineering Solutions & Technologies (TEST), Inc., Champaign, Illinois
• TRI Environmental Group, Austin, Texas
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• US Army Corps of Engineers, Airfield & Pavement Division, Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Dulles Corridor, Metrorail, Virginia

Professional Registrations

• Engineer-In-Training Certificate #17435, Georgia 1995

Research Interests

• Applications of artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques to transportation infrastructure
• Investigation of nonlinear, anisotropic, and stress dependent behavior of pavement and railroad track foundations
• Mechanistic based designs of airport/highway pavements and railroad track
• Size and shape determination of geo-materials using image analysis techniques
• Subgrade soils/aggregate materials stabilization and recycling
• Testing and modeling/characterization of pavement/railroad track geo-materials, i.e., soils and aggregates
• Transportation Geotechnics for Roads, Railroads and Airfields
• Use of geosynthetics in pavements and railroad track substructure

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• Synthesis of Highway Practice 524: Aggregate Quality Requirements for Pavements, Authored by Erol Tutumluer, Maziar Moaveni, and Issam Qamhia, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. (ISSN 0547-5570; ; ISBN 9780309390453, pages: 103, 2018)
• Synthesis of Highway Practice 445: Practices for Unbound Aggregate Pavement Layers, Authored by Erol Tutumluer, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C. (ISSN 0547-5570; ISBN 978-0-309-27085, pages: 180, 2013)
• The Design Theory and Methodology of Asphalt Pavement Based on the Cross- Anisotropy, Co-authored by Zhenfeng Li and Erol Tutumluer, Water Publishers, China (www.waterpub.com.cn) (ISBN: 978-75084-4328-7, pages: 169, 2007)

Books Edited or Co-Edited (Original Editions)

• Editor-in-Chief, Transportation Geotechnics, Journal by Elsevier
• Advances in Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics, Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics (ISEV 2018), held in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, on November 26-28, 2018; Edited by Erol Tutumluer, Xiaobin Chen, and Yuanjie Xiao, Springer Nature
• Recent Advances in Environmental Vibration, Proceedings Book of the 6th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration (ISEV2013), held in Shanghai, Tongji University in November, 2013; Edited by Gao Guangyun, Tutumluer, E., and Chen, Yunmin, China Scientific Books (ISBN/ISSN: 756085303X, 2013-10)
• Advances in Environmental Vibration, Hardcover Proceedings Book of the 5th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration (ISEV2011), held in Chengdu, China, on October 20-22, 2011; Edited by Zhai, W., Takemiya, H., De Roeck, G., and Tutumluer, E., Science Press USA, Inc. (ISBN: 978-7-03-032373-6, 894 pages, 2011)
• International Journal of Pavement Engineering Special Issue on Multi-scale Characterization and Modeling of Stone-based Infrastructure Materials, Guest Editors Linbing Wang and Erol Tutumluer, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 11, No. 5 (ISSN 1029-8436, pp. 331-439, October 2010)
• ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 203, entitled, Paving Materials and Pavement Analysis, Proceedings Book of the ASCE Geo-Institute GeoShanghai 2010 International Conference, held in Shanghai, China, on June 3-5, 2010. Sponsored by the Pavements Committee and Edited by Baoshan Huang, Erol Tutumluer, Imad L. Al-Qadi, Jorge Prozzi, and Xiang Shu (ISBN: 978-0-7844-1104-9, pages: 592, 2010)
• Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, Two-Volume Hardcover and CD-ROM Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, Champaign, Illinois, USA, June 29 - July 2, 2009; Edited by Erol Tutumluer and Imad Al-Qadi, 1600 pages (ISBN: 978-0-415-87199- 0, 2009)
• ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 169, entitled, Soil and Material Inputs for Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design, Proceedings CD-ROM of the ASCE Geo-Institute GeoDenver Congress, New Peaks in Geotechnics, held in Denver, Colorado, on February 18-21, 2007. Sponsored by the Pavements Committee and Edited by Erol Tutumluer, Laith Tashman, and Halil Ceylan (ISBN-13 978-0-7844- 0897-1, 2007)
• ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 154, entitled, Pavement Mechanics and Performance, Proceedings Book of the ASCE Geo-Institute GeoShanghai Conference, held in Shanghai, China, on June 6-8, 2006. Sponsored by the Pavements Committee and Edited by Baoshan Huang, Roger Meier, Jorge Prozzi, and Erol Tutumluer (ISBN: 0-7844-0866-1, pages: 300, 2006)
• ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 130, entitled, Advances In Pavement Engineering, Proceedings CD-ROM of the ASCE Geo-Institute Geo-Frontiers Conference, held in Austin, Texas, on January 24-26, 2005. Sponsored by the Pavements Committee, Edited by Charles W. Schwartz, Erol Tutumluer, and Laith Tashman (ISBN: 0-7844-0769-X, 2005)
• ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 123, entitled, Recent Advances in Materials Characterization and Modeling of Pavement Systems, Proceedings Book of the Pavement Mechanics Symposium at the 15th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference (EM2002), held at Columbia University, New York, on June 4, 2002. Edited by Erol Tutumluer, Yacoub M. Najjar, and Eyad Masad (ISBN: 0-7844- 0709-6, pages: 241, 2004)
• ASCE Geotechnical Special Publication No. 89, entitled, Recent Advances in the Characterization of Transportation Geomaterials, Proceedings Book of the Third National Conference of the Geo-Institute of ASCE, Geo-Engineering for Underground Facilities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 13-17, 1999. Edited by E. Tutumluer and A.T. Papagiannakis (ISBN: 0-7844-0437-2, pages: 72, 1999)

Chapters in Books

• Neves, J., Freire, A.C., Qamhia, I., Al-Qadi, I.L., and Tutumluer, E. “Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing and Instrumentation”, Advances on Testing and Experimentation in Civil Engineering, Springer, 2023, pp. 163-186.
• Kazmee, H., Tutumluer, E., Mishra, D. Field performance evaluations of large sized unconventional and recycled aggregates for subgrade improvement, The Roles of Accelerated Pavement Testing in Pavement Sustainability: Engineering, Environment, and Economics, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-42797-3_57, 2016, pp. 877-890.

Selected Articles in Journals

• (192)*w Luo, J., Ding, K., Huang, H., Hart, J.M., Qamhia, I.I.A., Tutumluer, E., Thompson, H., and Sussmann, T.R. “Towards Automated Field Ballast Condition Evaluation: Development of a Ballast Scanning Vehicle,” Transportation Research Record, Sage Publications, https://doi.org/10.1177/036119812311783, 2678 (3), 2024, pp. 24-36.
• (193)*w Qamhia, I.I.A., Tutumluer, E., Nicks, J.E., Adams, M.T. and Khan, M.S. “Lightweight and Alternative Backfills for Highway Applications: State-of-the-Practice in the USA,” Transportation Research Record, Sage Publications, https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231191519, Vol. 2678 (5), 2024, pp. 677-688.
• (194)*w Kang, M., Wang, H., Qamhia, IIA, Tutumluer, E., Tingle, J.S. “Local Stiffness Assessment of Geogrid-Stabilized Unbound Aggregates in a Large-Scale Testbed,” Special Issue Technological Innovations for Stabilization and Rehabilitation in Pavement Engineering, Applied Sciences, 2024, 14, 352. https://doi.org/10.3390/app14010352.
• (195)*w Husain, S.F., Wiggins, R., Kim, Y., Alhadidi, Y., and Tutumluer, E. “Resiliency Against Flooding in Pavement Geotechnics: Practice Review of State Transportation Agencies,” Transportation Research Record, Sage Publications, https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241245987, 2024.
• (196)*w Liu, Z., Shoemaker, T., Tutumluer, E., Hashash, Y.M.A. “Toward Large-Scale Simulation of Railroad Dynamics: Coupled Train–Track–Discrete Element Method Model,” Transportation Research Record, Sage Publications, https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241260688, 2024.
• (197)*w Kim, Y., Wiggins, R., Byun, Y.-H., Qamhia, I.I.A., Tutumluer, E., Beasley, J., Cisko, A., Kashani, H., Langlois, R., and Harrell, M.J. “Characterization of Degraded Ballast Strength: A Field Application of Ground Penetrating Radar and Dynamic Cone Penetration,” Transportation Research Record, Sage Publications, https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981241270164, 2024.
• (198)* Hasheminezhad, A., Farina, A., Yang, B., Ceylan, H., Kim, S., Tutumluer, E., and Cetin, B. “The Utilization of Recycled Plastics in the Transportation Infrastructure Systems: A Comprehensive Review,” Construction and Building Materials 411, 134448, 2024.
• (199)* Tan, P. Xiao, Y., Jiang, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Zhang, C., and Tutumluer, E. “Mechanism of Under-sleeper Pads Influencing Lateral Resistance of Ballasted Trackbed Based on Coupled Discrete Element-Finite Difference Method (DEM-FDM) Simulations,” Original Language Chinese, Journal of Central South University (Science and Technology), Vol. 5(2), 2024, pp. 457-472.
• (200)* Tan, P., Xiao, Y., Jiang, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Zhang, C., and Tutumluer, E. “Investigating Influencing Mechanisms of Under-sleeper pads on Lateral Resistance of Ballasted Railway Trackbed via Hybrid DEM-FDM Simulations,” Transportation Geotechnics Vol. 45, 101200, 2024.
• (201)*w Kong, T., Kothari, C., Qamhia, I.I.A., Tutumluer, E., Garg, N., Peters, T., and Stolba, A.J. “Freeze–Thaw Performance Trends of Short-Term Cured Cement-Stabilized Aggregate Quarry By-Product Materials,” Transportation Research Record, Sage Publications, https://doi.org/10.1177/003611981241236183, 2024.
• (202)* Loz, P.H.F., Rebmann, M., Futai, M.M., Tutumluer, E., and Angulo, S.C. “Volumetric Surface Area of Natural Coarse Aggregates by Interferometry-3D Scanning (Microscale) Method,” Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 422, 135776, 2024.
• (203)*w Husain, S.F., Abbas, M.S., Wang, H., Qamhia, I.I.A., Tutumluer, E., Wallace, J., and Hammond, M. “A Laboratory-Scale Evaluation of Smart Pebble Sensors Embedded in Geomaterials,” Sensors, MDPI, Vol. 24 (9), 2733, 2024.
• (204)* Lee, D., Kim, D.J., Lee, J.S., Tutumluer, E., and Byun, Y.-H. “Evaluation of Electrical Resistivity of Cement-based Materials Using Time Domain Reflectometry,” Measurement, 115166, 2024.
• (205)*w Ding, K., Luo, J., Huang, H., Hart, J.M., Qamhia, I.I.A., and Tutumluer, E. “Augmented Dataset for Vision-Based Analysis of Railroad Ballast via Multi-Dimensional Data Synthesis,” Algorithms, MDPI, Vol. 17 (8), 367, 2024.
• (206)*w Luo, J., Ding, K., Huang, H., Qamhia, I.I.A., Tutumluer, E., Hart, J.M., Thompson, H., and Sussmann, T.R. “Towards Automated Field Ballast Condition Evaluation: Field Validation of the Ballast Scanning Vehicle Capabilities,” Transportation Geotechnics, Vol 48, 101311, 2024.
• (207)* Kim, D.J., Son, D.G., Park, G., Lee, J.S., Tutumluer, E., and Byun, Y.-H. “Comparative Study on In-situ Resilient Modulus of Subgrade Estimated Using In-situ Modulus Detector,” Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 442, 137596, 2024.
• (208)*w Wang, H., Kang, M., Kim, Y., Qamhia, I.I.A., Tutumluer, E., and Shoup, H. “Geosynthetic-stabilized Aggregate: Quantitative Modulus Evaluation via Bender Element,” Geosynthetics International, Emerald Publishing, 2024, pp. 1-13.
• (209)*w! Tutumluer, E., Kang, M., and Qamhia, I.I.A. “Geosynthetic Stabilization of Road Pavements, Railroads, and Airfields,” Transportation Geotechnics, Vol 50, 101321, 2025.
• (210)* Kang, S., Park, G., Kim, N., Tutumluer, E., and Lee, J.S. “GPR-based Depth Estimation of Ground Interfaces in Permafrost Region: Electromagnetic Method and Cone Penetration Assessment,” Measurement, Vol. 242, 116158, 2025.
• (211)* Lees, A., and Tutumluer, E. “Characterizing Geomaterial Shakedown and Related Deformation Accumulation from Cyclic Triaxial Tests,” Transportation Geotechnics, Vol. 50, 101455, 2025.
• (212)* Hasheminezhad, A., Ceylan, H., Kim, S., and Tutumluer, E. “Evaluation of 3D-Printed Model Geogrids and Composite Geosynthetics Made from Recycled Plastics: Bridging Laboratory Insights with Field Performance,” Construction and Building Materials journal, Elsevier, Vol. 465, 140258, 2025.
• (213)*w Ding, K., Luo, J., Huang, H., Hart, J.M., Qamhia, I.I.A., Tutumluer, E., Thompson, H., and Sussmann, T.R. “I-BALLAST: Computer Vision Solutions for Ballast Degradation Analysis Using Deep-learning and Data Fusion Methods,” Geodata and AI journal, Elsevier, 100007, 2025.

Invited Lectures

• ISSMGE Ralph R. Proctor Lecture: “Geosynthetic Stabilization of Road Pavements, Railways and Airfields,” delivered in person during the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG 2024), Sydney, Australia, November 20, 2024.
• “Applications of Geosynthetics in Road & Airfield Pavements and Railway Track,” Invited Keynote Speech delivered in person at the 11th Chinese Conference on Geosynthetics organized by China Technical Association of Geosynthetics (CTAG), Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China, November 3, 2024.
• ASCE Francis C. Turner Lecture: “Aggregate Quarry By-products and their Sustainable Pavement Applications,” delivered online through ASCE Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) event platform, October 23, 2024.
• University Seminar Invitation: “Computer Vision Based Imaging and Characterization of Transportation Geomaterials,” delivered in person at Central South University, Changsha, Hunan Province, China, May 30, 2024.
• “Assessment of Constructed Aggregate Layer Stiffness Characteristics Using Bender Element Shear Wave Technology,” Invited Keynote Speech delivered in person at the GeoShanghai International Conference, Shanghai, China, May 27, 2024.
• “Computer Vision Based Imaging and Characterization of Transportation Geomaterials,” Invited Keynote Speech delivered in person at the 9th World Congress on Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering (CSEE 2024) for the International Conference on Geotechnical Research and Engineering (ICGRE), Imperial College, London, UK, April 16, 2024.

Other Publications

• *w! Tutumluer, E. “Geosynthetic Stabilization of Subgrade Soils and Pavement Granular Layers,” Transportation Research Circular Number E-C296, Foundation Design and Construction for 100-Year Pavement Systems, Transportation Research Board, https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/circulars/ec296.pdf#page=15, ISSN 0097-8515, November 2024, pp. 9-16.
• *w! Tutumluer, E., Kang, M., and Qamhia, I.I.A. “Analysis of Granular Base/Subbase in Airport Pavements Using Embedded Sensors,” Research Report No. DOT/FAA/TC-24/31, United States Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. William J. Hughes Technical Center, September 2024.
• *w! Al-Qadi, I.L., Tutumluer, E., Tseng, E., Qamhia, I.I.A., and Ozer, H. “Inverted Pavements Synthesis,” Research Report No. FHWA-HIF-24-023, United States Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, February 2024.
• *w! Tutumluer, E., and Qamhia, I.I.A. “Alternative Backfills for Highway Applications: State of the Practice,” Research Report No. FHWA-HRT-23-110, United States Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Infrastructure Research and Development, January 2024.
• *w! Huang, H., Luo, J., Ding, K., Tutumluer, E., Hart, J.M., and Qamhia, I.I.A. “I-RIPRAP 3D Image Analysis Software: User Manual,” Research Report No. FHWA-ICT-23-007, Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) R27-214 Project, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 2023.

Patents

• Composite Pavement Structures, EP2516745A1, Inventors: David K. Bower, Steven Hicks, Melissa Terry, Calvin T. Peeler, Ronald A. Galecki, and Erol Tutumluer, Current Assignee BASF SE, Original Assignee BASF SE and University of Illinois, Priority date 2009-12-21. (A composite pavement structure comprises a wearing course layer and a base course layer disposed below the wearing course layer. The base course layer comprises aggregate and an elastomeric composition. The elastomeric composition comprises the reaction product of an isocyanate component and an isocyanate-reactive component.)

Professional Societies

• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Elsevier (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-traffic-and-transportation-engineering-english-edition/editorial-board/), Editor-In-Chief Richard Kim, North Carolina State University, 2014 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Rail Transportation, Taylor and Francis Group, (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals), Co-Editors Wanming Zhai, Southwest Jiaotong University, China, and Kelvin C.P. Wang, Oklahoma State University, 2013 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Geomechanics, Editor-in-Chief Musharraf M. Zaman, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), (http://pubs.asce.org/journals/geomechanics/), January 2009 - present.
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Pavement Engineering, Taylor and Francis Group, (http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals), Co-Editors Tom Scarpas, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands and Imad Al-Qadi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004 - present.
• Associate Editor, International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, Editorsin- Chief Prof. Deng-Fong Lin, I-Shou University, Taiwan and Dr. Chung Wu, Virginia DOT, USA, Publisher: Chinese Society of Pavement Engineering, No. 300 Jhongda Rd., Jhongli City, Taoyuan County, 3200, Taiwan, R.O.C. (http://www.ijprt.org.tw), 2007 - present.
• Associate Editor, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Publisher: Sage Journals (https://journals.sagepub.com/editorial-board/trr), 2019 – present.
• Founding Editor-in-Chief, Transportation Geotechnics, a new Engineering Journal by Elsevier, 2014 (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-geotechnics/), with Co-Editors-in-Chief Antonio Gomes-Correia, University of Minho, Portugal and Yunmin Chen, Zhejiang University, China, January 2014 - present.
• International Association for Computer Methods And Advances In Geomechanics (IACMAG), Member, 2004-present
• International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP), Voting Member, 2002-present
• International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), Voting Member, 2002-present
• Association of Asphalt Paving Technologists, Associate Member, 1999-present
• American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Member, 1999-present
• ---- Member, Committee 1 on Ballast, 2001 - present
• American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA), Member, 2001-present
• ------- Chair, IGS Technical Committee on Stabilization, 2022-2026
• ---- IGS Elected Council Member, 2022-2026
• ------- Chair, IGS Publication Committee, 2020-2022
• ---- IGS Co-opted Council Member, 2020-2022
• International Geosynthetics Society (IGS), Member, 2019-present
• ---- Chair, ISSMGE Technical Committee TC202, Transportation Geotechnics, 2013-2022
• International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geo-technical Engineering (ISSMGE), Member, 2000-present
• ---- Member, Transportation and Development Institute, ASCE, Member, 2003-present
• ---- Member, Geo-Institute, ASCE, Member, 1998-present
• ---- Vice Chair, 2003-2006 Geo-Institute Pavements Committee
• ---- Chair, 2006-2012 Geo-Institute Pavements Committee (ASCE 2010 Committee of the Year Award, March 2010)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Member, 1998-present
• ---- Chair, TRB Subcommittee, AFS50(1), Applications of Nontraditional Computing Tools Including Neural Nets, 2002-2008
• ---- Chair, TRB AFP70 Aggregates Committee, April 2011-August 2016
• ---- Chair, TRB AKG00 Geological and Geotechnical Engineering Section, August 2016-March 2023
• Transportation Research Board (TRB), Affiliate, 1997-present

Service on University Committees

• UIUC Senate Member, 2020-2024
• Search Committee Member Appointed by Dean of Grainger College of Engineering, Search for CEE Department Head, Grainger College of Engineering, UIUC Campus, August 2019 - January 2020.

Service on Department Committees

• Director of ZJUI Education Programs, 2020-present
• Space Committee Member (representing Transportation), 2021-present
• Transportation Group Coordinator, 2016-2021
• International Programs Director, 2011-present
• Advisory Committee Chair 2004-2005, 2014-2015, 2018-2019, 2020-2021
• Advisory Committee (representing Transportation) 2003-2005, 2013-2015, 2017-2024

Service to Federal and State Government

• Chair, Working Group on Covered Resources, Appointed by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Washington, DC, December 4, 2024.

Other Outside Service

• Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE
• Journal of Transportation Engineering, ASCE
• Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM
• Transportation Research Board (TRB) Research Record Series

Teaching Honors

• Listed in the “Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students:” CEE 505: Transportation Soil Stabilization (2008, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2022, 2024)
• 2002 Ronald E. McNair Research Institute Faculty Advisor (May 2002)
• Elected Faculty for the Campus Honors Program (CHP) (2001)
• Collins Fellow (April, 2000)
• General Electric Fellow (April, 1999)
• NSF Engineering Education Scholar, Certificate of Recognition (July, 1997)
• General Electric Scholar and Teaching College Graduate (May, 1997)

Research Honors

• 5th Ralph R. Proctor Named Lecture, ISSMGE Technical Committee 202 on Transportation Geotechnics (November 20, 2024)
• 2024 Francis C. Turner Award, ASCE Transportation and Development Institute (June 17, 2024)
• PhD student Han Wang won IGS Student Award (April 27-May 1, 2024.)
• Runner up for Best Paper in Geosynthetics International journal (2023)
• 2023 International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) Award (September 20, 2023)
• 2021 Carl L. Monismith Lecture on Pavement Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Geo-Institute. (November 2020)
• Abel Bliss Professor in Engineering ( August 2020)
• 2020 James Laurie Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Transportation and Development Institute. (January 2020)
• 13th Zeng Guoxi Lecture, entitled, “Railroad Ballast: A Fascinating Geomaterial – Testing and Modeling Its Behavior” (December 20, 2019)
• Qiushi Distinguished Professor (May 2019)
• Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) Scholar Award Winner (May 2016)
• Paul F. Kent Endowed Faculty Scholar (October 2006)
• NSF International Workshop Scholar (September, 2001)
• Fred Burggraf Award for Excellence in Transportation Research (2000)

Public Service Honors

• ASCE Geo-Institute Pavements Committee (March 2010)
• Elected Council Member (February 2005-2007 )
• Faculty Advisor (1998-present)

Improvement Activities

• FHWA Pavement Resilience Stakeholder Group (PRSG) Meeting, Online event, January 14-15, 2025 (each day 12 pm to 3 pm ET).
• FHWA Pavement Foundations Technical Working Group (TWG) Meeting, Embassy Suites-Chicago O’Hare, Rosemont, Illinois, October 4, 2022.

Recent Courses Taught

• CEE 310 - Transportation Engineering
• CEE 406 - Pavement Design I
• CEE 498 ZJ1 - TIS Transport Infrastructure
• CEE 498 ZJU - Construction Safety
• CEE 498 ZJU - Transportation Infrastructure
• CEE 505 - Transport Soil Stabilization
• CEE 509 - Transportation Soils
• CEE 598 SS - Trans Soil Stablization
• CEE 598 SSO - Trans Soil Stabilization