Meet our faculty, Professor Kamal Hossain

Dr. Kamal Hossain is an Assistant Professor of Pavement Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Carleton University in Ottawa. Prior to joining Carleton, Dr. Hossain served as a faculty member at the Department of Civil Engineering of Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) in Canada. In the past, Dr. Hossain was a postdoctoral researcher at the Illinois Center for Transportation of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA, and the Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT) and ITSS Lab of University of Waterloo. Dr. Hossain earned his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2014.

Dr. Hossain’s research interests include pavement engineering, pavement materials, pavement management, and winter road maintenance. At Carleton, Dr. Hossain leads Advanced Road & Transportation Engineering Lab (ARTEL) that hosts over 10 MASc and Ph.D. students from Carleton and MUN. His research is supported by Carleton University, MUN, NSERC, MMSB of Government of NL, City of St. John’s, Starstech South Korea and Mitacs.

Dr. Hossain teaches pavement and highway engineering and pavement management courses. He has contributed to over 60 journal articles, conference papers and technical reports. He has been awarded several awards including the NSERC-Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Best Paper of Pavement Award at the ASCE International Conference on Highway Pavements and Airfield Technology.

Dr. Hossain is an early career editorial board member for the Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience published by Springer Nature. He is also a member of the Standing Committees of Pavement Maintenance (AKT30) and Asphalt Binder (AKM20) at the United States Transportation Research Board (TRB). He served as a Research Task Force Lead at the Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE). He is also a member of the ASCE Bituminous Materials Technical Committee, CTAA and CSCE.