University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Halil Ceylan

Halil Ceylan
Halil Ceylan (MS 95, PhD 02)
Professor
Iowa State University of Science and Technology

CEEAA Distinguished Alumni Award, 2021

For demonstrated leadership, significant noteworthy research achievements, education, mentoring and training of next generation engineers; and for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the field of transportation engineering.

Biography

Dr. Halil Ceylan is a Professor of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering and the founding Director of the Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research at Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University (ISU), where he has been teaching, conducting research, and mentoring graduate students and research staff as a faculty member for 19 years. He received his Ph.D. (2002, Transportation Facilities/Pavement Engineering) and M.S. (1995, Geotechnical Engineering) in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Ceylan serves as the ISU Site Director of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability Center of Excellence on General Aviation. He has been involved with 117 research projects (worth over $20 million project funds), serving as the Principal Investigator (PI) and/or Co-PI – all related to Transportation Infrastructure Systems, sponsored by the FAA, Federal Highway Administration, various other highway research programs and agencies, multiple state Departments of Transportation, and several other funding agencies. He has authored over 340 peer reviewed publications and has delivered over 350 presentations, including over 100 invited talks and several keynote lectures.

Ceylan’s cross-cutting and multi-disciplinary research expertise and accomplishments focuses on the planning, analysis, design, development and construction of Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Transportation Infrastructure Systems. He serves as the Chair of the ASCE Geo-Institute Pavements Committee and the ASCE Transportation & Development Institute Task Force Committee on Unmanned Aircraft Systems. He has supervised over 70 M.S. and Ph.D. students, postdoctoral research associates, research scientists and visiting scholars. Ceylan has served as a member of more than 25 national and international committees and organizations, and as an editorial board member of nine international journals.