He has been involved in research on sustainable materials for civil infrastructure since he was an undergraduate student. After obtaining his M.Sc. degree from University of Tehran, he joined concrete research group at Sherbrooke University in Canada, and he was awarded MELS Merit Research Scholarship from the Quebec Ministry of Education for his research program on fiber-reinforced self-consolidating concrete. During his research, he has been able to publish several scientific and technical documents dealing with concrete and cementitious materials. For the research that Yaghoob has performed in the field of cement and concrete, he has received the 2014 Portland Cement Association (PCA) Education Foundation’s J. P. Gleason Fellowship.