Two transportation faculty, Associate Professor Jeffrey Roesler and Assistant Professor Yanfeng Ouyang, were recently named recipients of the 2010 Xerox Award for Faculty Research.
The College of Engineering gives Xerox awards annually to both assistant and associate professors for outstanding research. Awards for assistant professors are based on one year of research accomplishments, while awards for associate professors are based on five years of research accomplishments.
Professor Roesler is honored for his outstanding contributions to research in the areas of advanced cementitious materials and sustainability of transportation infrastructure. He is a recognized innovator and leader in the area of fracture and fatigue of highway and airfield pavement structures and has received numerous awards since joining the faculty at Illinois. Most recently, Roesler was named a 2009-2010 Fulbright Scholar, an award that has allowed him to collaborate extensively this semester with fellow researchers at Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile, in Santiago, Chile.
Professor Ouyang is honored for his research on how to plan and design large-scale, complex transportation systems to achieve long-term operational efficiency and how to control and manage interactive transportation system components to ensure reliable and robust system performance in uncertain environments. His models help engineers work on a wide range of prominent real-world issues such as planning bio-energy supply systems and designing transportation infrastructure. Professor Ouyang’s research is timely and applicable to our
nation’s current environmental and economic concerns and therefore has attracted much attention nationally and internationally.
The Xerox Foundation, the world’s leading document management technology and services enterprise, established the Xerox Awards for Faculty Research in 1982.