• BS, Civil Engineering, Cairo University, 2000
• MS, Civil Engineering, Cairo University, 2002
• PhD, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2006

Journal Articles

Khaled Alrasheed, Haya Albader, Ahmed Khalafallah, Michael Gerges and Fawzi Alkandari, 2024, "Framework for PPP partner selection in K-12 educational facility procurement", Journal of Engineering Research, 12, (3), pp. 369-378

K Getvoldsen, A Chandragiri, Ahmed Khalafallah, M Belizaire, J Weirs, H Raheem, M Gerges and T Butt, 2024, "Sustainability's three principal dimensions versus climate change act 2008: A retrospective numerical modelling", Construction Economics and Building, 24, (3), pp. 4-22

S El-Safadi, M Gerges, M Clarke, T Damra, Ahmed Khalafallah, P Demian, O Selim, M Salamak and G Kapogiannis, 2024, "Maturity of BIM Implementation in the Jordanian AEC Industry", Emirati Journal of Civil Engineering and Applications, 2, (1), pp. 4-22

A Mukherjee, J Benett, K Anyigor, Ahmed Khalafallah, J Alencastroc and T Butt, 2024, "Solar roads–a new potential renewable energy for Great Britain", Environmental Technology, 45, (27), pp. 5956–5965

K Alrasheed, H Albader, Ahmed Khalafallah, M Gerges and F Alkandari, 2023, "Framework for PPP Partner Selection in K-12 Educational Facility Procurement", Journal of Engineering Research

Ahmed Khalafallah, N Muntasir, M Gerges, T Butt and G Kapogiannis, 2023, "Slow Adoption of Building Information Modeling: Comparing Viewpoints of Designers and Contractors", Emirati Journal of Civil Engineering and Applications, 1, (1)

Khaled Alrasheed, Ahmed Khalafallah, Afrah AlShaheen and Haya Albader, 2023, "Litigation versus Judicial Arbitration as Binding Dispute Settlement Techniques in Public Construction Projects", Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 15, (1), pp. 04522034

K Hyari and Ahmed Khalafallah, 2023, "A Legitimate Alternative for Unbalanced Bidding in Unit Price Contracts", Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 15, (4), pp. 1–10

Ahmed Khalafallah, Ehab Soliman and Khaled Alrasheed, 2022, "Impacts of covid-19 on the middle east construction industry", Journal of Engineering Research, 10, (3B)

Michael Gerges, Peter Demian, Ahmed Khalafallah and Marek Salamak, 2022, "Occupants’ Perspectives of the Use of Smartphones during Fire Evacuation from High-Rise Residential Buildings", Applied Sciences, 12, (11), pp. 5298

Ahmed Khalafallah, Nourah Almashan and Nada Abdel Haleem, 2020, "Port Construction Planning: Automated System for Projecting Expansion Needs", Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, 146, (6), pp. 04020040

Ahmed Khalafallah, Nabil Kartam and Rawan Abdel Razeq, 2019, "Bilevel standards-compliant platform for evaluating building contractor safety", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 145, (10), pp. 04019054

Ahmed Khalafallah and Yasmin Shalaby, 2019, "Change orders: Automating comparative data analysis and controlling impacts in public projects", Journal of construction engineering and management, 145, (11), pp. 04019064

Rawan Abdelrazeq and Ahmed Khalafallah, 2018, "A Framework for an Automated Decision Support System for Selecting Safety-Conscious Building Contractors in Kuwait", International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 10, (9)

Ahmed Khalafallah and Khaled Hesham Hyari, 2018, "Optimization parameter variation: improving biobjective optimization of temporary facility planning", Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 32, (5), pp. 04018036

Ahmed Khalafallah and Ahmed Fahim, 2018, "Project Delivery Systems for Healthcare Projects: To Lean or Not to Lean", Lean Construction Journal, 14

Khaled Hesham Hyari, Nasim Shatarat and Ahmed Khalafallah, 2017, "Handling risks of quantity variations in unit-price contracts", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 143, (10), pp. 04017079

Noor M Abdulfattah, Ahmed Khalafallah and Nabil A Kartam, 2017, "Lack of BIM training: investigating practical solutions for the State of Kuwait", International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 11, (8), pp. 1106--1112

Rawan A Abdelrazeq, Ahmed Khalafallah and Nabil A Kartam, 2016, "A Framework for an Automated Decision Support System for Selecting Safety-Conscious Contractors", International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 10, (9), pp. 1154--1159

Mohamed Abdel-Raheem and Ahmed Khalafallah, 2013, "Assessing the performance of electimize in solving NP-complete optimization problems", Int. J. Soft Comput. Softw. Eng., 3, (3), pp. 359--364

Mohamed Abdel-Raheem and Ahmed Khalafallah, 2013, "Modeling combinatorial optimization problems using Electimize", Procedia Computer Science, 16, pp. 449--458

Ahmed Khalafallah and Khaled El-Rayes, 2011, "Automated multi-objective optimization system for airport site layouts", Automation in Construction, 20, (4), pp. 313--320

Ahmed Khalafallah and Mohamed Abdel-Raheem, 2011, "Electimize: new evolutionary algorithm for optimization with application in construction engineering", Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 25, (3), pp. 192--201

Mohamed Abdel-Raheem and Ahmed Khalafallah, 2011, "Using electimize to solve the time-cost-tradeoff problem in construction engineering", Computing in Civil Engineering Proceedings, 250, (257), pp. 2011

Ahmed Khalafallah and Khaled El-Rayes, 2008, "Minimizing construction-related security risks during airport expansion projects", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 134, (1), pp. 40

Ahmed Khalafallah, 2008, "Neural network based model for predicting housing market performance", Tsinghua Science and Technology, 13, (S1), pp. 325--328

Ahmed Khalafallah and Khaled El-Rayes, 2006, "Minimizing construction-related hazards in airport expansion projects", Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 132, (6), pp. 562--572

Ahmed Khalafallah and Khaled El-Rayes, 2006, "Optimizing airport construction site layouts to minimize wildlife hazards", Journal of Management in Engineering, 22, (4), pp. 176--185

Khaled El-Rayes and Ahmed Khalafallah, 2005, "Trade-off between safety and cost in planning construction site layouts", Journal of construction engineering and management, 131, (11), pp. 1186--1195

Ahmed Khalafallah and K El-Rayes, 2004, "Safety and cost considerations in site layout planning", Housing and Building Research Centre Journal, 1, (1), pp. 141--150

• Research Publication Reward, Kuwait University, 2020

• MSETM Award, Western Kentucky University, 2012

• Builders of the Realm Award, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2008

• Beavers and Allan Myers Professorship, The Beavers Charitable Trust and Allan Myers Inc., August 2022

Service to Penn State:

• Academic Leadership and Support Work, Coordinator, CEM Focus Area Coordinator, August 2024

• Committee Work, Member, CEE Graduate Program Committee, August 2023 - May 2024

• Committee Work, Member, Strategic Action Committee, August 2023 - May 2025

• Committee Work, Member, CEE Lecture Series Committee, August 2022 - May 2023

Service to External Organizations:

• Service to Governmental Agencies, Co-Chairperson, Higher Education Advisory Committee - Digital Delivery Program, PennDOT, January 2024

• Testifying as an Expert Witness, Chairperson, Chair of Expert Witness Team, Ministry of Justice, 2017 - 2019