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Selected Awards and Honors
ASCE Medal Established in 2023
International and National Honors and Awards
- Alfred Noble Prize. The award recognizes the exceptional merit of a paper published across all the technical publications of five major engineering societies in the US (ASCE, AIME, ASME, IEEE, WSE), for the paper "Life-Cycle Risk-Based Optimal Maintenance Strategy for Bridge Networks Subjected to Corrosion and Seismic Hazards," Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2023, 04022128, doi: 10.1061/JBENF2.BEENG-5799: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2024
- Opera Omnia Award, Romanian Association of Structural Design Engineers (AICPS), 2024
- Honorary Member, Romanian Association of Structural Design Engineers (AICPS), 2024
- Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate Degree), Polytechnic University of Timișoara, Timișoara, Romania, 2024
- International Award of Merit, European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures (EUROSTRUCT), 2023
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Sweden Group, 2023
- Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Denmark Group, 2023
- Corresponding Member, Mexican Academy of Engineering, Elected in 2023
- International Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Elected in 2022
- Thorpe Medal (European Council on Computing in Construction (EC3)), for the paper "Digital technologies can enhance global climate resilience of critical infrastructure," published online in December 2021 in Climate Risk Management, Elsevier, 2022
- Arthur M. Wellington Prize, for the paper "Optimum Target Reliability Determination for Efficient Service Life Management of Bridge Networks," published in October 2020 in Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE, 2022 (Official Video)
- Moisseiff Award, for the paper “Determining Target Reliability Index of Structures Based on Cost Optimization and Acceptance Criteria for Fatality Risk,” published in June 2021 issue of ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, 2022
- Ranked No. 1 (Lehigh University), Ranked No. 45 (United States), and No. 95 (World) on April 6, 2022, by Research.com on the list of top scientists in Engineering and Technology, 2022
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Canada Group, 2022
- Aftab Mufti Medal (ISHMII), for "Lifetime achievement in civil structural health monitoring," 2021, Award Ceremony Slides (PDF), Acceptance Remarks (Youtube)
- Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Spain Group, 2021
- Foreign Associate, Engineering Academy of Japan, Elected in July 2020
- Member, National Academy of Construction of the United States, Elected for "Significant contributions to scientific knowledge and a world-renowned pioneer, expert, and leader in the field of life-cycle cost, safety, and optimal management of civil infrastructure," (NAC Press Release),
2020
- Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal (ASCE) for "Outstanding contributions to the advancement of probabilistic, reliability and risk methods in civil engineering, particularly in developing probabilistic models for life-cycle performance assessment, maintenance and optimum management of civil infrastructure systems in diverse loading environments," 2020,
Award Ceremony Slide (PDF), Acceptance Remarks (Youtube)
- Raymond C. Reese Research Prize (Recipients) for the paper "Utility and Information Analysis for Optimum Inspection of Fatigue-Sensitive Structures," published in February 2019 in Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, 2020
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - USA Group, 2020
- Honorary President, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering – Dutch Group, 2020
- George W. Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal (ASCE) for "Pioneering contributions to the integration of structural health monitoring and control in life-cycle reliability-based assessment, design and optimization of civil and marine infrastructure,"
2019, Award Ceremony Slide (PDF)
- State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award
(Recipients) for the paper "Bridge Adaptation and Management under Climate Change Uncertainties: A Review,” published in February 2018 in Natural Hazards Review, ASCE, 2019, Official Video, Photo (courtesy of ASCE/Jason Dixson Photography)
- Ranked as the 10th most-cited civil engineering author in the August 2019 Stanford University worldwide citation survey published in PLOS Biology, based on Scopus citation data for 6 million scientists in 22 major fields and 176 sub-fields; the survey calculated citations deposited in Mendeley Data during the period 1996-2017 and ranked and sorted 100,000 scientists by a composite point index excluding self-citations, 2019
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Sri Lanka Group, 2019
- Honorary Professor, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China, 2019
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Korea Group, 2018
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Turkey Group, 2018
- Honorary Professor, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang, China, 2018
- Honorary Member, Romanian Academy, Section: Engineering Sciences, Elected in 2017, Members, Biosketch (in Romanian)
- Civil Engineer of the Year 2016, American Society of Civil Engineers - Lehigh Valley Section, 2017: this award focuses on civil engineers who have distinguished themselves by outstanding achievements and contributions to the civil engineering profession, to the education and support of younger engineers and future engineers, and to the community at large (referring to the local, regional, national, and international communities)
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Chile Group, 2017
- Foreign Member, Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Section: Technical Sciences, Elected in 2016
- Alfredo Ang Award on Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure (ASCE), Inaugural Recipient, for "Exceptional efforts in advancing, advocating and persistently promoting the life-cycle cost analysis of structures and structural systems, and their integration into reliability-based structural analysis and design," 2016 (Society Awards Presentation,
Photo,
ASCE News, PDF)
- OPAL (Outstanding Projects and Leaders) (Recipients, ASCE News, PDF) Leadership Award for Lifetime Accomplishments in Education: for demonstrated excellence in furthering civil engineering education, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016
Video
Video Script (pdf file);
Official Video including Acceptance Remarks (webpage);
ASCE News - Pioneer of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Honored with 2016 OPAL for Education (embedded video);
Official Photos by David Hathcox: 1. Recipients; 2. Receiving the OPAL Lifetime Achievement Award - Education from ASCE President Mark Woodson (right) and ASCE Executive Director Thomas Smith (left); 3. Delivering Acceptance Remarks
- Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate Degree - Laurea Magistrale ad Honorem in Civil Engineering), Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), Milan, Italy, 2016
(HDC since 2001)
Official Photos: 1. Committee Members; 2 and 3. Lecture (Photos 2 and 3); 4 and 5. Awarding Laurea Magistrale ad Honorem
(Photos 4 - Rector Giovanni Azzone (right) and 5 - Dean Barbara Betti (left) and Rector Giovanni Azzone (right)) - JSPS Fellowship Award for Research in Japan (short-term), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2016
- Fellowship Award for Research in Spain from “Horizon 2020-The EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation," Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 2016
- Honorary Professor, Hunan University, Hunan, China, 2016
- Alfred Noble Prize (Recipients), The award recognizes the exceptional merit of a paper published across all the technical publications of five major engineering societies in the US (ASCE, AIME, ASME, IEEE, WSE), for the paper "Life-cycle Management of Fatigue Sensitive Structures Integrating Inspection Information", Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 20(2), 2014, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015
(Official Video, Official Picture by David Hathcox/ASCE)
- Foreign Member, Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe, London), Section: Physics & Engineering Sciences, List of Members, Elected in 2015
- Honorary Professor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Melbourne, Australia, 2015
- Honorary Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, 2015
- Honorary Professor, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China, 2015
- Honorary Professor, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China, 2015
- Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Japan Group, 2015
- Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate Degree), Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi, Iași, Romania, 2014
- J. James R. Croes Medal (Recipients), one of the most prestigious awards given by ASCE for a paper published in one of its 34 journals, for the paper "Generalized Probabilistic Framework for Optimum Inspection and Maintenance Planning", Journal of Structural Engineering, 139(3), 2013, American Society of Civil Engineers (Official Awards Ceremony), 2014
- Vice-President of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE (2014-15), and member of its Board of Governors, 2013-15
- Honorary Member, Foundation of the Polytechnic University of Timișoara, Romania, 2014
- Honorary Professor, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, 2014
- Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Australia Group, 2014
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Brazil Group, 2013
- Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Italy Group, 2013
- Inaugural Fellow, Engineering Mechanics Institute, ASCE, 2013 (EMI Fellows)
- Honorary Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, 2013
- Vice-President of the International Association for the Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR), 2013-
- Arthur M. Wellington Prize (Recipients), for the paper "Novel Approach for Multi-Criteria Optimization of Life-Cycle Preventive and Essential Maintenance of Deteriorating Structures", Journal of Structural Engineering, 136(8), 2010, American Society of Civil Engineering, 2012, (Official Video, Official Picture by David Hathcox/ASCE)
- Fazlur R. Khan Life-Cycle Civil Engineering Medal, IALCCE, 2012
- Inaugural Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute, ASCE, 2012 (SEI Fellows)
- Senior Prize, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, 2012
- Special Service Award, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, 2012
- Honorary Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, 2012
- Honorary Professor, Chang'an University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 2012
- Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - China Group, 2012
- Honorary Professor, Southeast University (Award Ceremony), Nanjing, China, 2011
- Honorary Professor, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, 2011
- Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (the highest honor ASCE can bestow), 2010
Video, Video Script (pdf file);
ASCE Press (pdf file);
Distinguished Members (webpage)
- Honorary Professor, Tongji University (Award Ceremony), Shanghai, China, 2009
- ISHMII Fellowship Award, International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, 2009
- Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate Degree), University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, 2008
- Visiting Chair Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008-
- IALCCE Senior Award, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2008
- RAE Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award, The Royal Academy of Engineering, for research at the University of Surrey, 2008
- Munro Prize, Elsevier, for the best paper of the year published in 2006 in Engineering Structures, 2006
- IABSE OPA Award (Outstanding Paper Award), for the best paper published in 2006 in Structural Engineering International, the Journal of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2007
List of recipients of the Outstanding Paper Award (webpage)
- Ernest E. Howard Award (Recipients), American Society of Civil Engineers for “Outstanding contributions to the advancement of structural engineering, particularly in the risk assessment and maintenance planning of deteriorating civil infrastructure," 2007
- T. Y. Lin Medal, T.Y. Lin International and International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety for "Outstanding contributions to bridge maintenance, safety and life-cycle cost," 2006
- Honorary Member, Portuguese Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, 2006
- IFIP Award, International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, 2006
- Nathan M. Newmark Medal, (Recipients) American Society of Civil Engineers for “Outstanding contributions to structural engineering and engineering mechanics, particularly the modeling and optimization of lifetime system performance of deteriorating materials and structures in the civil infrastructure," 2005
- Kajima Research Award, Kajima Corporation, 2004
- State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award (Recipients), American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004
- Moisseiff Award (Recipients), for the paper "Reliability-Based Assessment of Suspension Bridges: Application to the Innoshima Bridge" Journal of Bridge Engineering, 6(6), 2001, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003
- JSPS Fellowship Award for Research in Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003
- Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate Degree), Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, 2001
- IASSAR Senior Research Prize in the area of System Reliability and Optimization, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, (PDF), 2001
- J. James R. Croes Medal (Recipients), one of the most prestigious awards given by ASCE for a paper published in one of its journals, for the paper "Condition Prediction of Deteriorating Concrete Bridges Using Bayesian Updating" Journal of Structural Engineering, 125 (10), 1999, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001
- Distinguished Service Appreciation as Chair of the Technical Division Executive Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001
- Honorary Member, Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, Elected in 2000
- State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award (Recipients), American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998
- Award of Appreciation, Federal Highway Administration, 1998
- Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International, 1996 (First Winner of this Award)
- Congress of the United States Official Proclamation upon Receiving the SAE International Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, 1996
Lehigh University Awards
- Excellence in Research, Scholarship, and Leadership Award, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University, 2020. This award recognizes a Rossin college faculty member who has demonstrated outstanding scholarships (through publications, patents, etc.) and is considered to be a prominent research leader in their field, thus bringing recognition to Lehigh, April 20, 2020
- Hillman Faculty Award, Lehigh University, 2019. (Photo with President Simon and Provost Farrell, April 30, 2019). Awarded for excellence in teaching, research work, and for advancing the interests of the University. Traditionally the University reserves this award for those who have distinguished themselves through long-term excellence or service to the institution. April 30, 2019
- Hillman Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising, Lehigh University, 2016 (Photo of Ph.D. students Dong and Sabatino receiving the award on behalf on their advisor Dr. Frangopol from President Simon and Provost Farrell, May 10, 2016). Awarded for excellence in teaching, research or advancing the interests of Lehigh University and exemplary student advising.
- Eleanor and Joseph F. Libsch Research Award, Lehigh University, 2013 (Photo with President Gast and Provost Farrell, April 30, 2013). Selected on the basis of one or a combination of the following: a) Extended demonstration of nationally/internationally recognized scholarly excellence; b) Bringing significant recognition to Lehigh (national/international fellowships, academy Memberships, reviews and/or high profile publicity in national/international media); c) A major research accomplishment in the last five years.
- Lynn S. Beedle Distinguished Civil and Environmental Engineering Award (the CEE's Department highest recognition, to be awarded November 21, 2024).
- Service Recognition, Recognition of 18 Years of Service to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lehigh University, May 17, 2024.
University of Colorado Awards
- Faculty Assembly of the University of Colorado at Boulder Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work Award, Boulder Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado, 2004
- Clarence L. Eckel Faculty Prize for Excellence, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering , University of Colorado, 2003
- The Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, 1999
- Service Award, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering, University of Colorado, 2002
- Distinguished Achievement Award, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering, University of Colorado, 2000
- Research Development Award, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering, University of Colorado, 1988 and 1998
- Teaching Award, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering, University of Colorado, 1987
Other Selected Honors
- Academic Community Member of the State Key Laboratory on Resilient Coastal City Infrastructure under Climate Change (SKL-RICC), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 2024-present.
- Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Joint Research Center for Resilient Infrastructure (ICRI), Tongji University, China, 2023-present.
- Expert for the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) and the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium, to evaluate Excellence of Science (EOS) research proposals, 2021-23.
- Member of the International Academic Steering Committee of the International Institute of Smart Structure Systems and Informatics (ISSSI) at Zhejiang University, China, 2018-
- Member of the Advisory Panel of the project Sustainable Marine Infrastructure Enabled by the Innovative Use of Seawater Sea-Sand Concrete and Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites (Project Coordinator: Prof Jin-Guang Teng), PDF, Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong, 2019-24
- Member of the Advisory Committee of the National Academies (NAS, NAE, NAM) within TRB Committee to Review FHWA R&D Long-Term Infrastructure Program (LTIP), 2017-20
- Member of the International Joint Research Center for Engineering Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics (CERSM) established at Tongji University in 2016
- Invited by the Marine Board of the National Academies (Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) as an Expert on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) to attend the Expert Forum on SHM for providing expert opinions to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Irvine, CA, May 2016
- Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of distinguished service to Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) as the Vice President (2014-15) and Member of the Board of Governors (2013-15), Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI), American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015
- Member of the TRB Expert Task Group (ETG) for Review of the Long-Term Bridge Performance Program (LTBP) Special Activities (BSPEC), 2015-18
- Member of the Management Committee Observer Group (represented by an expert per continent) of the Transport and Urban Development COST Action TU1406 (Quality specifications for roadway bridges, standardization at a European level (Bridge Spec)), 2015-19
- Member of the External Panel to Review Candidates for Chair Professorships, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China, 2015–
- Member of the Technical Region Board of Governors, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014-15
- Member of the Society Awards Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013-14
- Member of the Board of Governors of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2013-15
- Member of International Advisory Committee of the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 2013-
- Guest Professor, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 2013-
- Founding Chair of the IASSAR Technical Committee TC4 on Life-Cycle Performance Cost and Optimization, 2012-
- International Expert Evaluator for the Research Assessment of the Royal Institute of Technology, Final Report, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
- International Expert Evaluator of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, 2012
- International Expert for the Academy of Finland, Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, Helsinki, Finland, 2011-
- Guest Professor, University of Paris-Est, Marne-la-Vallée, France, 2011
- Guest Professor, French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR), Paris, France, July 2011
- Guest Professor, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China, 2010-
- Distinguished Scientist and Member of the Advisory Board for the SmartEN Marie Curie ITN, EU Project, Cyprus University of Technology, 2009-
- Board Member of the Advisory Committee for the Taiwan Building Technology Center of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Project on Frontier Technologies for Enhancing the Reliability of Critical Infrastructures, 2009-
- Dissertation Supervisor of the PhD Student (Nader M. Okasha) who received the 2009 Nevada Medal for Distinguished Graduate Student Paper in Bridge Engineering, 2009
- Guest Professor, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, June 2008
- Advisory Board Member of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program, Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation, 2008-09
- Founder and Chair of the ASCE-SEI Technical Council on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structural Systems, 2008-
- Initiator and Organizer of the Fazlur Rahman Khan Distinguished Lecture Series at Lehigh University, 2007-
- Panel Member for the Expert/Peer Review of the Bridge Management Information System (BMIS) at the Turner-Fairbank Research Center (TFHRC), Federal Highway Administration, McLean, VA, June 2007
- Member of Electoral Board of the Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus, 2006-
- External Expert for the Habilitation Committee for the Venia Docendi at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science, Vienna, Austria, 2006
- First Holder of the Fazlur Rahman Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University, 2006-
- Fellow, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, 2006-
- Founding President and Executive Board Chair, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE), 2006-
- Honorary Member, International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, 2006-
- Chair, Executive Board of the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR), 2006-13
- Chair, IABSE Working Commission 1 on Structural Performance, Safety and Analysis, and Member of the IABSE Technical Committee, 2005-09
- Coordinator, Working Group on Bridge Life-Cycle, Cost/Benefit, and Value, Federal Highway Administration, 2005
- Vice-President, Member of the Executive Committee, Member of the Council and Co-Founder of the International Society for Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures (ISHMII), 2004-
- Chair, Awards Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute , Technical Activities Division, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2004
- Chair, International Advisory Board of the Research Unit on Life-Cycle Science and Engineering, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, 2004-07
- Chair, WG 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems , International Federation for Information Processing , 2004-07
- Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003-
- Honorary Technical Advisor, Korea Infrastructure Safety and Technology Corporation (KISTEC), Seoul, Korea, 2003-
- Director and Co-Founder, Consortium on Advanced Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Civil Environments, COALESCE , University of Colorado, 2001-06
- Board Member, Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS), IABSE representative, 2001-09
- Chair, Executive Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute , Technical Activities Division, American Society of Civil Engineers , 1999-2000
- Founding President and Executive Committee Chair, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety , IABMAS , 1999-
- Fellow, American Concrete Institute, 1997-
- Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1993-2010
- Senior Scientist Fellowship, Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Trondheim, Norway, 1991-92
- Visiting Professor/Scholar at Universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and Taiwan, 1988-
- External Member, Dissertation Co-Advisor or Advisor, and/or President of PhD Thesis Committees at Universities in Australia (University of Newcastle, 1993), Austria (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, 2008, 2011, 2014, twice in 2018, 2021, and 2024; Vienna University of Technology, 2014), Belgium (University of Liège, 2021), Brazil (University of Sao Paolo, 2016; University of Brasilia, 2018), Canada (University of Waterloo, 1993, and twice in 2007), China (Beijing Jiaotong University, 2016; Hunan University, 2018; Zhejiang University, 2019), Denmark (University of Aalborg, 2001), England (University of Surrey, 2005; University of Nottingham 2021), France (University of Paris-Est and LCPC, 2008), Hong Kong (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2017, 2019), India (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 2006), Ireland (University College Dublin, 2014), Italy (University of Pavia, 2009; Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, four times in 2010), the Netherlands (Delft University of Technology, 2007), New Zealand (University of Auckland, 2016), Portugal (University of Minho, 2005), Serbia (University of Belgrade, 2015), South Africa (University of Pretoria, 2024), Spain (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, 1996), Sweden (Lulea University of Technology, 1998), Switzerland (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1991, 2001), and the United States (University of Colorado at Boulder, 1984-2006, 2016; University of California, Los Angeles, 1991; Lehigh University 2007-)
