About Kamal Khayat

HONORARY MEMBER

Dr. Kamal Khayat of Rolla, Missouri, Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at Missouri S&T, is an honorary inductee. He earned five degrees in the areas of construction materials, structural engineering, and construction engineering and management from the University of California, Berkley, between 1982 and 1990. Khayat had a successful 21-year career at the Université de Sherbrooke in Quebec where he led substantial research projects, including serving as the NSERC Industrial Research Chair, a consortium of 17 industrial partners from Canada and the U.S. In 2011, Khayat joined Missouri S&T as the Vernon and Maralee Jones Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Center for Infrastructure Engineering Studies. He currently serves as S&T’s vice chancellor for Research and Innovation. During his career, he has secured research grants of approximately $35 million as principal investigator (PI) and $14 million as co-PI. He has mentored 33 Ph.D. students, 44 master’s students and 21 postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars. He has co-authored over 450 peer-reviewed publications and was recognized in the top 2% of cited scientists in his field by Stanford University and Elsevier from 2018 to 2024. Most recently, he was ranked 19 out of over 43,000 scientists in the building and construction sector. Khayat and his wife, Gina, have been married for 34 years, and they have two adult sons, Michael, who holds a bachelor’s degree in ceramic engineering from S&T, and Patrick.