2026 Khaled El-Rayes: Business and Management Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Business and Management	38	1874	1754	765	700	145	5073
Engineering and Technology	40	7425	7166	2027	1881	184	5486

Overview

Khaled El-Rayes is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on engineering with a significant emphasis on building and construction, management science and operations research, civil and structural engineering, environmental engineering, and geology.

El-Rayes has contributed extensively to several main topics within their field, including:

BIM and Construction Integration
Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
Construction Project Management and Performance
Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling
Facilities and Workplace Management

The frequent publication venues where El-Rayes's work appears include:

Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Journal of Building Engineering
Engineering Construction & Architectural Management

Their recent papers illustrate a diverse range of research interests and include the following:

"Scan2BIM-NET: Deep Learning Method for Segmentation of Point Clouds for Scan-to-BIM" (2021), published in Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
"Minimizing transportation cost of prefabricated modules in modular construction projects" (2021), published in Engineering Construction & Architectural Management
"Optimizing the integration of renewable energy in existing buildings" (2021), published in Energy and Buildings
"Optimal use of renewable energy technologies during building schematic design phase" (2023), published in Applied Energy
"Multiobjective Optimization of Reality Capture Plans for Computer Vision-Driven Construction Monitoring with Camera-Equipped UAVs" (2022), published in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

Their frequent coauthors include Mamdouh Al-Ghzawi, Ahmed A. Hassan, Michael N. Grussing, Trevor Betz, and Ernest-John Ignacio. Collaborations with these researchers have contributed to multiple publications and reflect overlapping research interests.

Best Publications

Time-Cost-Quality Trade-Off Analysis for Highway Construction

Khaled El-Rayes;Amr Kandil

464
Citations
Optimizing Resource Utilization for Repetitive Construction Projects

Khaled El-Rayes;Osama Moselhi

230
Citations
Change Orders Impact on Labor Productivity

Osama Moselhi;Osama Moselhi;Ihab Assem;Ihab Assem;Khaled A El-Rayes;Khaled A El-Rayes

218
Citations
Optimal Planning and Scheduling for Repetitive Construction Projects

Khalied Hyari;Khalied Hyari;Khaled A El-Rayes;Khaled A El-Rayes

201
Citations
Trade-off between Safety and Cost in Planning Construction Site Layouts

Khaled El-Rayes;Ahmed Khalafallah

178
Citations
Impact of Rainfall on the Productivity of Highway Construction

Khaled El-Rayes;Khaled El-Rayes;Osama Moselhi;Osama Moselhi

174
Citations
Scheduling of repetitive projects with cost optimization

Osama Moselhi;Khaled El‐Rayes

166
Citations
Resource-driven scheduling of repetitive activities

Khaled A El-Rayes;Osama Moselhi

166
Citations
Optimizing Resource Leveling in Construction Projects

Khaled A El-Rayes;Dho Heon Jun

163
Citations
Optimizing Material Procurement and Storage on Construction Sites

Hisham Said;Khaled A El-Rayes

130
Citations
Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Resource Utilization in Large-Scale Construction Projects

Amr Kandil;Khaled El-Rayes

118
Citations
Dynamic Site Layout Planning Using Approximate Dynamic Programming

Khaled A El-Rayes;Hisham Said

114
Citations
Estimating weather impact on the duration of construction activities

Osama Moselhi;Daji Gong;Khaled El-Rayes

108
Citations
Automated multi-objective construction logistics optimization system

Hisham Said;Hisham Said;Khaled El-Rayes

100
Citations
Optimizing Postdisaster Reconstruction Planning for Damaged Transportation Networks

Wallied Orabi;Khaled El-Rayes;Ahmed B. Senouci;Hassan Al-Derham

92
Citations
Performance of global optimization models for dynamic site layout planning of construction projects

Hisham Said;Khaled El-Rayes

86
Citations
Multiobjective optimization of resource leveling and allocation during construction scheduling

Dho Heon Jun;Khaled El-Rayes

85
Citations
Optimization Research: Enhancing the Robustness of Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization in Construction

Amr Kandil;Amr Kandil;Amr Kandil;Khaled A El-Rayes;Khaled A El-Rayes;Khaled A El-Rayes;Omar El-Anwar;Omar El-Anwar;Omar El-Anwar

83
Citations
Scan2BIM-NET: Deep Learning Method for Segmentation of Point Clouds for Scan-to-BIM

Yeritza Perez-Perez;Mani Golparvar-Fard;Khaled El-Rayes

81
Citations
An automated system for optimizing post-disaster temporary housing allocation

Omar El-Anwar;Khaled El-Rayes;Amr Elnashai

79
Citations
Optimizing Resource Utilization during the Recovery of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Wallied Orabi;Ahmed B. Senouci;Khaled A El-Rayes;Hassan Al-Derham

78
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mani Golparvar-Fard University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Osama Moselhi Concordia University

Amr S. Elnashai University of Houston

Mostafa A. Elseifi Louisiana State University

Lucio Soibelman University of Southern California

Youssef M. A. Hashash University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Timothy Bretl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Yanfeng Ouyang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Feniosky Peña-Mora Columbia University

Tarek Hegazy University of Waterloo

External Links

Personal website of Khaled El-Rayes Google Scholar page

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