Significant Awards

• Excellence Professorship Award, School of Engineering, 2025
• Senior Faculty Research Excellence Award, School of Engineering, UNM, 2024
• Stamm Outstanding Research Award, Civil, Construction and Env. Engineering, 2023
• Best Paper Award, 6th Int. Conf. on Geotechnique, Const. Mat. & Env., Thailand, 2016
• J Stamm Endowed Research Award, Civil Engineering, UNM, 2016
• John Booker Excellence Medal, from International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG), an international honor, ceremony held in Japan, 2014
• Best Paper Award, 8th International Conf. on Road and Airfield Pavement Tech., Taiwan, 2013
• Stamm Outstanding Faculty Award, Dept. of Civil Engineering, UNM, 2012
• Second Best Paper Award, ASCE Texas Section Conference, Texas, 2012
• Regents’ Lecturer Award, University of New Mexico, 2011
• Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, School of Engineering, UNM, 2010
• Allen Stamm Endowed Lectureship Award, Civil Engineering, UNM, 2009
• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2007
• Outstanding Intellectual of the 21st Century, Cambridge Biography Center, 2004
• Faculty Development Travel Grant Award, Texas Southern University, 2004
• Sooner Heritage Scholarship from the President, University of Oklahoma, 2003
• Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant, University of Oklahoma, 2002
• Graduate College Travel Grant, University of Oklahoma, 2002
• Cleo Cross Scholarship for Academic Accomplishments, University of Oklahoma, 2001
• Govt. of Japan Scholarship for Higher Edu. at Asian Institute of Tech., Thailand, 1996

Professional Registrations

• Professional Engineer, State of New Mexico, License No. 22398
• Professional Engineer, State of Idaho, License No. 13598

Professional Affiliations

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Transportation Research Board
• International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics
• American Society for Testing Materials (Committee D04, Committee E56)
• American Society for Engineering Education
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• Chi Epsilon (National Council Member, 1 out of 10 members involving 141 universities)