"Post-Doc Fellows of the Masters Gathering Program at the Department of Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University"

Masters Gathering Program

Masters Gathering Program refers to Overseas Academic Masters Gathering Program – Scientists’ Joint Lab based on the International Institute of Smart Structure Systems and Informatics (ISSSI) – for Resilient Civil Infrastructure which is a key international cooperation and exchange program of Zhejiang university. It provides a platform for academic cooperation and exchange with the world’s top academic masters to train outstanding young scholars. At present, the program leads by two foreign academicians, and composed of four research teams, including more than ten overseas key academic masters and internal experts of the college. We are seeking motivated persons to join us, to work on research subjects of the program.

Available Positions

Position 1: Supervisor: Chung Bang Yun. Research areas: 1. Intelligent Civil Infrastructure: smart sensors, structural health monitoring, condition assessment, structural control, and AI. 2. Resilience of Civil Infrastructure: assessment, enhancement, and management of safety, reliability, and resilience for civil infrastructure. Qualifications: 1. PhD in Civil, Architectural, Mechanical, or Computer Engineering/Science. 2. Good English skill in speaking and writing. Contact: ycb@zju.edu.cn with subject “Name + application for research fellow”.

Position 2: Supervisor: Jung-June Roger Cheng. Research areas: High strength steel structures and underground energy steel pipelines. Assessment and structural health monitoring of innovative structural systems. Qualifications: PhD degree. Good English skill in speaking and writing. Contact: jjrcheng@zju.edu.cn with subject “Name + application for research fellow”.

Position 3: Supervisor: Jiangpeng Shu. Research areas: The application of photogrammetric, laser scanning and deep learning method in structural health monitoring and inspection. Concrete structures and composite structures, experiment and numerical modelling. Industrialized construction techniques (e.g. robot automation) in concrete structures. Qualifications: Background in Structural engineering, concrete structures and composite structures; Building information modelling; information technologies for construction, structural; and intelligent automation of construction. Computer Science and Information Technology: basic programming skills in functional and/or object oriented languages, preferably in Python, C++, signal/image processing, computer vision; robotics. Contact: jpeshu@zju.edu.cn with subject “Name + application for research fellow”.

Position 4: Supervisor: Yiqiang Xiang. Research areas: Design and analysis theory, hydrodynamic behavior of Submerged Floating Tunnel, intelligent health monitoring and control system of underwater structures. Qualifications: Published two papers indexed in SCI or one SCI+ one EI paper; Good English writing and oral communication skills or international cooperation and exchange experience; Experience in hydrodynamic behavior analysis in fluid-structure coupling or structural performance analysis of ocean bridges, familiar with CFD, ABAQUS, MATLAB etc. Contact: xiangyiq@zju.edu.cn with subject “Name + application for research fellow”.

Position 5: Supervisor: Giorgio Monti. Research areas: Structural Engineering, Structural Health Monitoring, Earthquake Engineering. Qualifications: PhD in Structural Engineering in a major University, documented experience in Earthquake Engineering. Contact: monti@zju.edu.cn with subject “Name + application for research fellow”.

Position 6: Supervisor: Naiyu Wang. Research areas: Resilience of built environment – assessment and decision-making; Modeling and probabilistic risk assessment for spatially distributed civil infrastructure networks and building portfolios considering natural hazards (earthquake, flood, etc.); Modeling of interdependent systems; network modeling and analysis; multi-objective optimization; Modeling of hazards: urban flooding; hurricanes; cascading hazards, etc.; Decision modeling for community and regional resilience planning; Analysis of multiple/competing hazards and risks, and their impact on communities’ short-term and long-term planning; Mitigation strategies and policy design; Applications of machine learning tools (deep learning, reinforcement learning, etc.) on model calibration and validation; data mining to support disaster resilience assessment and enhancement; Applications of optimal control theory to dynamic decision making; Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing on disaster warning and forecasting, risk assessment and hazard mitigation. Qualifications: PhD in Structural engineering, traffic engineering, system engineering, disaster prevention and mitigation engineering and protection engineering, municipal engineering, etc. Contact: naiyuwang@zju.edu.cn with subject “Name + application for research fellow”.

Positions 7 & 8: Supervisors: Weijian Zhao and Jun Ye. Research areas: Layout/Topology/Geometric optimization for structure design. Fundamental theories and applications of monitoring techniques/novel sensing technologies, maintenance, and strengthening/repair in infrastructure. Fundamental theories and design of cold-formed steel, high-performance steel/ composite structures, modular buildings, structural performance subjected to extreme loading events (e.g. fires or earthquakes). Automation in construction, e.g. robots in construction, big data analysis, data-driven design, steel/concrete or composite additive manufacturing (3D printing). Duties: Pursue research in listed areas, conduct experimental and theoretical research, produce high-quality outputs. Work with collaborators. Qualifications: Ph.D. in Engineering or related (Civil Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics or Physics). Experience in listed areas. Good programming skills (C++ or C# or Python or Matlab…), familiar with FE analysis software, experimental techniques. Salary: 2-4 years fixed contract with annual salary up to RMB350,000 (around 50,000 USD), plus bonus. Rental apartment, financial support for conferences. Opportunity for faculty positions. Contacts: zhaoweijian@zju.edu.cn and jun_ye@zju.edu.cn with subject “Name + application for research fellow”. Application Materials: 1. CV (academic experience, 2 referees, publication list) and one-page research interests statement; 2. 2-3 representative publications or projects.

Application Materials (General)

A current CV (including academic experience, 2 referees’ information, and publication list) and a one-page statement of research interests; 2-3 representative publications or research projects.