Post-Doctoral Associate in the Division of Engineering (Civil Engineering) - Dr. Mostafa Mobasher

NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education for a global world, dedicated to excellence in teaching and research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanity’s shared challenges. Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on intercultural understanding and leadership. It supports innovative research and graduate education programs that push forward the frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local challenges.

Description

The Center for Sand Hazards and Opportunities in Resilience, Energy, and Sustainability (SHORES) and the Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi, seek to recruit a Post-doctoral Associate to work on a fascinating project focused on the development machine-learning powered digital twin system for the structural performance of civil engineering structures. The project is a collaboration between multiple research groups led primarily by Professor Tarek Abdoun and Professor Mostafa Mobasher. It involves a diverse range of activities including: structural and geotechnical modeling, machine-learning model development, structural sensing and health monitoring, conducting physical experiments, and validation of computational models.

Required Qualifications:

A successful applicant must have a PhD in Civil Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or Mechanical Engineering with no more than five years post receipt of the PhD. Applicants are expected to demonstrate research experience in the fields of structural modeling and machine-learning model development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• the development of computational models to represent structural performance using commercial and research software tools
• the development and validation of machine learning and artificial intelligence models focused on representing the structural response
• physical experimental testing for structural and geotechnical applications
• data acquisition and processing from monitoring systems
• validation of modeling results against experimental and monitoring data

Post-doctoral Associate Employment at NYUAD:

The terms of employment include highly competitive salary, medical insurance, housing allowance, annual home-leave travel, and educational subsidies for children as well as other benefits. For consideration, applicants need to submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae with full publication list, statement of research interests, transcript or degree, and contact information for at least two references, all in PDF format.

If you have any questions, please email Dr. Mostafa Mobasher at mostafa.mobasher@nyu.edu.