Awards


  • IMPACT Faculty Fellow, 2013

  • Discovery Park Faculty Scholar, 2013-2015

  • Roy E. and Myrna G. Wansik Civil Engineering Research Award, 2012

  • Emerging Scholars Grant, UTRC, 2007

  • CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award for contributions to transportation research and education, 2010

  • Emerging Scholars Grant, UTRC, 2007

  • CP-STIO Award, Govt. of India, 2007-2010

  • Howard A Blitman Career Development Chair, 2005-2009

  • Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC) Robert Herman Award for outstanding research and leadership, 2005

  • Five National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards, 2006 - Present


Students' Awards


  • INFORMS TSL Society Best Transportation Science Dissertation Award Finalist, Dr. Samiul Hasan, 2014

  • Eldon Yoder Memorial Award to Rodrigo Mesa-Arango, 2014

  • Pai Tao Yeh Travel Fellowship to Feng Zhu, 2014

  • Civil Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student to Abdul Aziz, 2014

  • International Road Fellowship to Rodrigo Mesa-Arango, 2013

  • College of Engineering Best Graduate Student Research Award to Samiul Hasan, 2013

  • Student Sustainability Research Project Award to Abdul Aziz, 2013

  • Pai Tao Yeh Travel Fellowship to Xianyuan Zhan, 2013, 2014

  • Pai Tao Yeh Travel Fellowship to Feng Zhu, 2014

  • Graduate School Travel Grant to Abdul Aziz, 2013

  • Best Poster Award, Shell Day at Discovery Park to Abdul Aziz, 2012

  • Colombia Student Association Travel Grant to Rodrigo Mesa-Arango, 2012

  • INFORMS TSL Society Best Transportation Science Dissertation Award, Dr. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, 2009

  • Second Paper Award, Gitakrishnan Ramadurai at the ITSWorld Congress on "Next Generation Traveler Guidance Systems", 2008

  • MIT Clean Energy Prize, Semi-Finals, 2009

  • Founders Award, M.E. student, Courtney Sweeney, 2007

  • 9/11 Fellowship from NYMTC/UTRC for Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, 2007-2008



Other Awards


  • Member of the Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2006-Present

  • NSF Scholarship to attend the Xth International conference in Stochastic Programming, Tucson, AZ, 2004

  • Graduate Travel Grant by School of Engineering, University of Illinois, 2002