Sadik Khan, PhD, PE
Dr. Sadik Khan is an Associate Professor at Civil Engineering Department at Jackson State University and has worked for 18+ years on different projects with the investigation, monitoring, and evaluation of foundations, slopes, and earth retaining systems. Dr. Khan leads and co-leads multiple projects funded by Federal and state agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), Gulf Research Program, USDOT, USACE ERDC, FRA, and MDOT, on various aspects of sustainable, resilient, and smart Infrastructure. He co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports on various aspects of geo-infrastructure. Dr. Khan is an Associate Editor of the ASCE Natural Hazard Review Journal. Dr. Khan is a licensed engineer in the States of Texas and Mississippi. Dr. Khan is a technical member of various national committees, including the Transportation Research Board, the United States Society of Dams, the ASCE Geo-Institute, and the Deep Foundation Institute. Dr. Khan graduated with four PhDs, 16 MSs, and is supervising two post-docs, eight PhDs, eight MSs, and eight undergraduate students.
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OUTSTANDING NATIONAL AWARDS
2024 ASME Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering, Awarded at IMECE2024, Portland, OR.
2021 AASHTO Sweet 16 project Award, Awarded by AASHTO Research Advisory Committee on the research project, “State Study 286: Performance Evaluation of highway slopes on Yazoo clay”.
2020 NSF CAREER AWARD Awarded by National Science Foundation.
2019 ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Awarded by ASCE Region 5 in September 2019.
2018 ENGINEER OF THE YEAR Awarded by ASCE MS Section in October 2018.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Technical Book
Hossain, M.S., Kibria, G. and Khan, S., (2018), “Site Investigation using Electrical Resistivity Imaging”, CRC Press, ISBN 9781138485938 - CAT# K349394
Hossain, M.S., Khan S. and Kibria, G. (2017), “Sustainable Slope Stabilization using Recycled Plastic Pin”, CRC Press, ISBN 9781138636101 - CAT# K32128
Journal Papers
Nemnem, A. M., Tanim, A. H., Nahian, A., Khan, S., Goharian, E., & Imran, J. (2025). How extreme rainfall and failing dams unleashed the Derna flood disaster. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1-12.
Nobahar, M., Salunke, R., Chia, H. K., La-Cour, I., Khan, S., & Amini, F. (2023). Identifying unsaturated suction variations of Highway Embankments using coupled Electrical Resistivity Imaging (ERI) and Field Instrumentation. Geomechanics and Geoengineering, 1-26.
Salunke R., Nobahar M., Alzeghoul O. E., Khan S, La Cour, I., and Amini F. (2023). Near-Surface Soil Moisture Characterization in Mississippi’s Highway Slopes Using Machine Learning Methods and UAV-Captured Infrared and Optical Images, Remote Sens. 2023, 15(7), 1888; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15071888
Nobahar M., Salunke R., Alzeghoul O. E., Khan S, and Amini F. (2023). Mapping of Slope Failures on Highway Embankments using Electrical Resistivity Imaging (ERI), Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), and Finite Element Method (FEM) Numerical Modeling for Forensic Analysis. Transportation Geotechnics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2023.100949
Khan, M. S., Nobahar, M., Stroud, M., Ferguson, S., & Ivoke, J. (2022). Performance Evaluation of a Highway Slope on Expansive Soil in Mississippi. International Journal of Geomechanics, 22(1), 05021005.
Khan M.S., Nobahar M, Stroud, M., Amini, F and Ivoke, J. (2021) Evaluation of rainfall induced moisture variation depth in highway embankment made of Yazoo clay, Transportation Geotechnics, 30 (100602), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2021.100602
Nobahar, M., Khan, M.S., Stroud, M., Amini, F., and Ivoke, J. (2021), Progressive Development of the Perched Water Zone in Highway Slopes Made of Highly Plastic Clay”, Transportation Research Record.
Khan M. S., Ivoke J., Nobahar M., Boggs, S. and Amini F. (2021), Artificial Neural Network (ANN) based predictive Soil Temperature model of High Plastic Yazoo Clay, Geomechanics and Geoengineering, 1-17.
Ahmed, A., Khan, M. S., Hossain, S., Sadigov, T., & Bhandari, P. (2020). Safety prediction model for reinforced highway slope using a machine learning method. Transportation research record, 2674(8), 761-773.
Ahmed, A., Hossain, M.S., Khan, M.S., and Shishani, A. (2018), “Data Based Real Time Moisture Modeling in Unsaturated Expansive Subgrade in Texas”, Transportation Research Record: Transportation Research Board, 0361198118772960
Technical Reports
Khan, S., Amini, F. Salunke, R. and Nobahar, M. (2023), “MDOT State Study 316 – Development of Advanced Landslide Investigation Protocol Using Geophysical Methods for Mississippi”, Final Report Submitted to Mississippi Department of Transportation, Pp 213.
Khan, M.S., Amini, F. and Nobahar, M. (2020), “State Study 286: Performance Evaluation Highway Slope Made of Yazoo Clay”, Final Report Submitted to Mississippi Department of Transportation, Pp 251.