Khaled El-Rayes
Main research area: Construction Methodologies and Management
Biography
Khaled El-Rayes is a Professor of Construction Engineering and Management and Associate Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. El-Rayes has more than 30 years of professional experience in both academia and the construction industry. He taught numerous graduate and undergraduate courses in the area of construction engineering and management and he was repeatedly selected in the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students” at the University of Illinois. He also served as PI and Co- PI on numerous research projects with budgets totaling more than $13 Million that were funded by the National Science Foundation and Illinois Department of Transportation. The outcome of his research projects was published in more than 180 articles including more than 105 journal papers. The contributions of his research have also been recognized nationally and internationally, receiving many research awards including the “Best Conference Paper Award” from the ASCE Construction Research Congress in 2012, the “Best Journal Paper Award” in 2010 from the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, the “ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize” in 2007; the “NSF CAREER Award” from the National Science Foundation in 2003; and the “Doctoral Prize of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science” from Concordia University in Canada in 1999. El-Rayes supervised the research work of 32 Ph.D. students, including 23
former Ph.D. students who are currently holding faculty positions in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois Chicago, Purdue University, Columbia University, Penn State University, University of Colorado, US Air Force Institute of Technology, Florida International University, University of Santa Clara, Alexandria University, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, and King Saud University. El-Rayes served as the Secretary, Vice-Chair and Chair of the ASCE Construction Research Council, which is widely recognized as the premier national forum for Construction Engineering and Management research and it includes in its membership more than 200 professors and scholars.