"Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Transportation Engineering"

Job Details

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering. However, outstanding candidates at the Associate Professor level will be considered.

Transportation Engineering: Candidates with a strong background in connected and autonomous mobility systems and/or AI in transportation and infrastructure systems, particularly in areas such as but not limited to connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and multi-modal vehicular systems, intelligent transit systems, digital twin models at vehicular, operational, and network levels, vehicle-to-infrastructure integration, and advanced AI-powered transportation sensing, analytic, control, and infrastructure systems. The candidate is expected to advance the next generation of AI-driven smart vehicles, smart traffic sensors and controllers, real-time traffic safety and mobility applications, transportation infrastructure systems and network control, as well as smart city and smart transportation infrastructure.

The successful candidate is expected to develop and teach transportation courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels within the department, including transportation engineering, traffic safety, traffic operations and simulation, transportation systems analysis, and other related transportation courses. We are seeking to hire a faculty member with high potential to develop a well-funded research program. The successful candidate will be expected to have access to and contribute to the state-of-the-art DataCity Smart Mobility Testing Ground, collaborating with other CEE faculty, transportation agency partners, and industry, and linking with other university research programs.