Dr. Ali Rahman

Profile

Ali Rahman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), where he also serves as a teaching staff at the Joint School and a Key Member of the Key Laboratory for Highway Engineering of Sichuan Province. He received his Ph.D. degree in Road & Railway Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2019. Before pursuing doctoral studies, he was a lecturer at Jundi-Shapur University of Technology in Iran for 3.5 years. In the meantime, he was working as a Highway Design Engineer in several consulting engineering firms. His research interests mainly include sustainable infrastructure materials and technologies, pavement analysis & mechanics, and nondestructive evaluation of transportation infrastructure. His research projects have been funded by various sources, such as Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the Young Foreign Talent Program of the Ministry of Science & Technology of China.  He has published over 40 SCI-indexed articles in international journals. He has also been recognized as High-Level Foreign Talent (Category A3) in Sichuan Province in 2023. He also serves as a reviewer of several peer-reviewed journals, such as the International Journal of Pavement Engineering and Construction & Building Materials. He is also e member of several professional organizations, such as the RILEM Union, the International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE).