Pejoohan Tavassoti, PhD (He/Him)

Prof. Pejoohan Tavassoti is an Assistant Professor and the Jr. Norman W. McLeod Chair in Sustainable Pavement Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he is closely working with the Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT). Prior to joining the University of Waterloo, Prof. Tavassoti worked as an Assistant Research Professor at the Thomas D. Larson Transportation Institute of the Pennsylvania State University. His research revolves around promoting sustainability and resilience of the transportation infrastructure with a focus on an enhanced pavement engineering, design, and materials characterization framework. To this end, he has been actively working on collaborative research with several colleagues from across Canada and internationally for over the past 12 years. In 2020, Prof. Tavassoti was elected to serve a 5-year term as the vice chair of the Ontario Asphalt Expert Task Group (OAETG), where he is currently working with experts from the academia, transportation industry, government agencies, municipalities, and consultants to address some of the pressing issues affecting the quality of the pavement network in Canada.

At the international level, Prof. Tavassoti is an active member of the International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM). At RILEM, he is serving as the leader of the bituminous binders fingerprinting Task Group of the TC FBB. In this capacity, he is working with experts from over 18 different countries on utilizing advanced materials characterization techniques and Artificial Intelligence to bridge the gap between the chemo-physical properties of the bituminous mixes and their performance characteristics. Prof. Tavassoti is also the co-founder of the National Transportation Infrastructure Research Center (NTIRC) at the K.N.Toosi University of Technology, where he used to serve as the core faculty member until 2012.

• Smart Pavements and Connected Transportation Infrastructure

• Sustainable Materials and Green Construction Technologies

• Modern Pavement Instrumentation

• Implications of Climate Change for Pavement Design and Assest Management

• Non-destructive Testing and Evaluation (NDT\/E)

• Advanced Construction Materials Characterization

• Recycled Materials Valorization in Pavements

• Application of Nanotechnology

• Enhanced Pavement Design and Performance Prediction

• Application of Artificial Intelligence to Pavement Engineering Problems

• 3D Printing of Cementitious Materials

• Multistakeholder Planning in Pavement Engineering and Management

As a result of a collective effort by multiple colleagues from the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, a new book on Introduction to Transportation Principles and Applications has been gathered in partial support by the Staebler Insurance OER Fellows Grant. The book is publicly available for download here: http://pejoohan.com/AnIntroToTransport-2025.pdf

• 2016, Doctorate Civil Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.

• 2010, Master of Science Civil Engineering, K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Iran

• 2007, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Civil Engineering, University of Guilan, Iran

• Top 10 under 40 in Aggregate and Road Construction Industry

• Jr. Norman W. McLeod Chair in Sustainable Pavement Engineering

• 2020-present: Vice-Chair, Ontarion Asphalt Expert Task Group (OAETG)

• 2020-present: TG-2 Leader, Technical Committee 295-FBB : Fingerprinting bituminous binders using physico-chemical analysis. International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM)

• CIVE 241 - Transport Principles and Applications
  • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
• CIVE 542 - Pavement Structural Design
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2025
• CIVE 642 - Pavement Design and Management I
  • Taught in 2023, 2024, 2025
• CIVE 742 - Pavement Design and Management II
  • Taught in 2023

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Saliani, S. Saeed and Tavassoti, Pejoohan and Carter, Alan and Baaj, Hassan, Characterization of Asphalt Mixtures Produced with Short Pulp Aramid Fiber (PAF), Construction and Building Materials, , 2021

• Saliani, S. Saeed and Carter, Alan and Baaj, Hassan and Tavassoti, Pejoohan, Characterization of Asphalt Mixtures Produced with Coarse and Fine Recycled Asphalt Particles, Infrastructures, , 2019

• Boz, Ilker and Bekiroglu, Korkut and Solaimanian, Mansour and Tavassoti-Kheiry, Pezhouhan and Lagoa, Constantino, Validation of Model Order Assumption and Noise Reduction Method for the Impact Resonance Testing of Asphalt Concrete, Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, , 2017

• Tavassoti-Kheiry, Pezhouhan and Boz, Ilker and Chen, Xuan and Solaimanian, Mansour, Application of ultrasonic pulse velocity testing of asphalt concrete mixtures to improve the prediction accuracy of dynamic modulus master curve, Proceedings, Airfield and Highway Pavements, , 2017

• Tavassoti-Kheiry, P and Boz, I and Solaimanian, M and Qiu, T, Evaluation of Nondestructiveness of Resonant Column Testing for Characterization of Asphalt Concrete Properties, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, , 2017

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• More than $1.1 million awarded to researchers