Post-Doctoral Associate in the Center for Sand Hazards and Opportunities in Resilience, Energy, and Sustainability - Abu Dhabi, UAE - New York University

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 Postdoctoral 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, and is still within their first 5 years since receiving their PhD. Applicants are expected to demonstrate research experience in the fields of structural modeling and machine-learning model development.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in the following will be preferred:

• 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

Postdoctoral 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 and contact information for at least two references, all in PDF format.

If you have any questions, please email Dr. Mostafa Mobasher at

Applications may be submitted on

About NYUAD:
NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU's global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.

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UAE Nationals are encouraged to apply.