Awards and honors


2020

Jennifer Dargin's paper with Dr. Mostafavi received the Best Paper Award in the Infrastructure and Sustainability Track of CRC 2020.

Natalie Coleman received a NSF Graduate Fellowship, 2020.

Dr. Mostafavi received Dean of Engineering Excellence Award , 2020.


2019

Dr. Mostafavi received NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2019.


2018

Dr. Mostafavi received  Engineering Genesis Award from College of Engineering and Texas Engineering Experiment Station, Texas A&M University, 2018.

Dr. Mostafavi received Research Impact Award (for excellence in research) from Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2018.

Dr. Mostafavi received a Machine Learning Award from Amazon Web Services (AWS), 2018.

Dr. Mostafavi received a travel grant and invitation to attend the NSF Coastlines and People (CoPe) Scoping Session, Sept 2018.

Dr.Mostafavi is selected as a Rising Stars in Civil Engineering, Civil + Structural Engineer Magazine, 2018.


2017

Dr.Mostafavi received an Early-Career Research Fellowship, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Gulf Research Program, 2017.


2016

Kambiz Rasoulkhani received the 3rd place best Ph.D. poster awards at the 2016 Construction Research Congress

Jin Zhu and Mostafa Batouli received the 2nd and 3rd place best Ph.D. poster awards at the 2016 Construction Research Congress      

Ali Mostafavi is selected to Engineering News Record (ENR) Southeast’s “Top 20 Under 40” list for 2016.


2015

Jin Zhu is a recepient of the prestigous FIU Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship.

Ali Mostafave is a co-recepient of 2015 CII Distinguished Professor Award.

Jin Zhu and Ali Mostafavi received VIMS Best Paper Award of the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Conference 2015.


2014

Ali Mostafavi is cited in 2014 Marquis Who's Who in the World.​


2013

Ali Mostafavi received 2013 Highly Commended Journal Paper Award of Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence for the paper titled: “System-of-Systems Approach for Assessment of Financial Innovations in Infrastructure” .​


2012

​Ali Mostafavi received Outstanding Civil Engineering Graduate Student Award from the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, 2012.​

​Ali Mostafavi received Scholarship and Grand Prize Award from the U.S. Department of Transportation for his submission to the 2012 Data Visualization Challenge.​

​Ali Mostafavi's doctoral dissertation was the Final Nominee from the School of Civil Engineering for 2012 Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Award.

Ali Mostafavi received the Third Place Poster Award in the ASCE Construction Research Congress, 2012.

Ali Mostafavi was awarded a Scholarship from the Chicago Regional Chapter of the Construction Management Association of America, 2012.​​

Ali Mostafavi was awarded a Conference Fellowship from National Science Foundation to attend the 2012 CMMI Engineering Research and Innovation Conference in Boston, MA.​

Ali Mostafavi was awarded a Conference Travel Grant from the Office of Graduate Education and Interdisciplinary Programs at the College of Engineering at Purdue University, 2012.​

Ali Mostafavi received the People’s Choice Award in the Data Visualization Challenge of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation, 2012.​

Ali Mostafavi was awarded a Travel Grant from the Research and Innovative Technology Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation, 2012.​


2010

Ali Mostafavi received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Committee for the Education of Teaching Assistants (CETA) of the Graduate School at Purdue University, 2010.