Al-Qadi holds the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and is the Director of the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Qaid Farhan al-Qadi (Arabic: قائد فرحان القاضي; Hebrew: קאיד פרחאן אל-קאדי; born c. 1972), [1] an Israeli-Bedouin held hostage by Hamas since the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, was rescued on August 27, 2024, after 326 days in captivity.

Al-Qadi is an Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include: Abd al-Majeed al-Qadi (born 1934), Yemeni playwright and writer; Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi (1552/3–1616), Moroccan writer; Ayad Alkadhi (born 1971), Iraqi-American artist; Isam al-Qadi (died 2006), Palestinian politician

IL Al-Qadi, Q Aurangzeb, SH Carpenter, WJ Pine, J Trepanier. FHWA-ICT-12-002, 2012. 296: 2012: Viscoelastic modeling and field validation of flexible pavements. MA Elseifi, IL Al-Qadi, PJ Yoo. Journal of engineering mechanics 132 (2), 172-178, 2006. 260: 2006: Pavement life cycle assessment framework.

Al-Qadi leads the Illinois Center for Transportation and the initiative of the Illinois Autonomous and Connected Track. He is an internationally renowned engineer and scholar in transportation engineering research, sustainability, airfield and highway pavement mechanics, electrified freight and platoons, and ground-penetrating radar.

Imad L. Al-Qadi founded and became the director of Illinois Center for Transportation in 2005. He joined the ranks of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as a professor in 2004. View Faculty Profile

Aug 27, 2024 · Israelis on Tuesday celebrated the rescue of Farhan al-Qadi, who was taken hostage during Hamas’s attacks on Oct. 7. But none more so than his family, who raced through the hallways of...

Al-Qadi’s teaching, research, and consulting interests and expertise focus primarily on civil engineering and pavement materials, sustainability, highway and airfield pavement mechanics, advanced modeling, including viscoelastic response to tire loading, pavement fracture, tire–pavement interaction, tack coat application rate optimization ...

Imad AL-QADI, Grainger Distigued Chair in Engineering/ ICT Director | Cited by 11,127 | of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL (UIUC) | Read 458 publications | Contact Imad AL-QADI