Malik Awan

Contact

Faculty of Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept

Email: mnawan@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Pavement Engineering Construction Engineering and Management Machine Learning

About

Malik A. Awan is a Pavement Design Engineer and PhD student at the University of Alberta. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Civil Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan, where he graduated with the Dean's Gold Medal.

Throughout his academic and professional career, Malik has worked on a wide range of projects involving transportation infrastructure and construction materials, including both asphalt and concrete pavements. His research and engineering experience includes the application of machine learning and deep learning techniques for monitoring, evaluating, and predicting the performance of transportation infrastructure, including instrumented pavement sections in cold regions.

Malik's research interests include pavement analysis, monitoring, design, and rehabilitation.

Research

Pavement performance prediction and evaluation
Machine learning applications in civil engineering
Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) data analysis
Flexible Pavement Distress Analysis
PavementME AASHTOware Design
Smart infrastructure and self-monitoring road systems
Construction materials and pavement management

Teaching

CIVE- 391 Civil Engineering Materials (TA) 2024-2025

Featured Publications

Interpretable Empirical Modelling of Subsurface Pavement Temperatures for an Instrumented Test Section in Edmonton, Alberta Using Gene Expression and Multiple Expression Programming

Malik Noor Ul Amin Awan*, and Leila Hashemian,

Transportation Association of Canada, Winnipeg. 2026 October;

Field-Based Assessment of Pavement Performance through Seasonal Comparison of Measured and Modelled Strain and Stress Responses

Malik Noor Ul Amin Awan*, Silas Henrique Barbosa de Carvalho, , Leila Hashemian, Mohammad Shafiee , and Alireza Bayat

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. 2026 April; 52

Predictive Temperature Modeling in Granular Base and Subgrade Layers Using Machine Learning A Smart Road Study in Edmonton, Alberta

Malik Noor-Ul-Amin Awan*; Silas Henrique Barbosa de Carvalho; Leila Hashemian; Mohammad Shafiee; Alireza Bayat

Journal of Cold Regions Engineering. 2026 March; 10.1061/JCRGEI.CRENG-966