Dr. Karim Chatti

Biography

Karim Chatti holds a B.S. (1985) and M.S. (1987) from Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (1992). He worked as an assistant research engineer at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC-Berkeley before joining Michigan State University (MSU) in 1993 as a visiting assistant professor. He later became a tenure-track faculty member in 1998. Chatti is the director of the Michigan Department of Transportation Pavement Research Center of Excellence and has served in various administrative roles including acting associate dean for research in the College of Engineering in 2013-2014 and civil engineering graduate program director in 2012. He is known as an internationally recognized expert in pavement engineering with a research focus on mechanistic modeling of pavement systems, pavement dynamics, vehicle-pavement interaction, backcalculation of pavement layer properties, surface roughness characterization, and continuous health monitoring of pavements. He has been involved in 40 research projects totaling $15 million funded by various transportation departments and federal agencies, and has published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers and 35 technical reports.

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