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Halil Ceylan, PhD

Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. endowed professor
Iowa State University
Ames, IA, United States

Dr. Halil Ceylan (Ha-leel Jay-LAAN) is a Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. endowed professor in the Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department at Iowa State University and the director of the Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research (PROSPER) at the Institute for Transportation. He also serves as the ISU site director for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Center of Excellence (COE) for Partnership to Enhance General Aviation Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability (PEGASAS).

He has over 20 years of experience in pavement/granular road field investigation and forensic testing, field instrumentation and monitoring, pavement/granular road performance evaluation and modeling, mechanistic-based pavement/granular road analysis and design concepts, pavement/granular road preservation and rehabilitation, non-destructive testing and health monitoring of transportation infrastructure systems, economic analysis of transportation infrastructure assets, and engineering application of intelligent data mining and computational intelligence techniques.

Dr. Ceylan has actively taken leadership roles in several national/international level professional organizations and societies, including the ASCE Geo-Institute Pavements Committee (Chair), the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) Uncrewed Aerial Systems Committee (UAS) Chair. He has also served as a member of over 30 national and international committees and subcommittees of professional organizations, including ASCE, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Research Council, the American Concrete Institute (ACI), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Ceylan has authored/co-authored over 500 publications, garnering three best-paper awards. He has delivered over 480 presentations with 170+ invited talks, including several keynote lectures. He has mentored and supervised over 90 graduate students, postdoctoral research associates, and research staff. Many of his students have leading positions in the profession and are faculty members in academic institutions. He has generated over $27.2 million in project funds from over 145 research studies since 2002, these being related to geo and transportation infrastructure systems, pavement/geotechnical/civil engineering materials, sustainability, resiliency, safety, pavement preservation, cementitious materials, and so on. Research sponsors include the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, Department of Defense (DOD)-U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), National Science Foundation, Portland Cement Association, Strategic Highway Program, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, and many others.

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