Fully Funded PhD and Postdoc Positions in Digital Twins, Autonomous Driving, and Robotics Purdue University in United States

Purdue University College of Engineering is recruiting postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students for the Purdue Digital Twin Lab. The lab’s research spans autonomous driving , robotics , human-autonomy teaming , digital twins , and intelligent transportation systems . Topics include multimodal world foundation models for driving, physical reasoning and action-conditioned planning, world models and vision-language-action models for robotic navigation, human-centered AI that adapts to individual...

The Urban Intelligence and Smart City (Urbanity) Lab at the University of Central Florida is hiring PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in areas spanning AI, transportation, computer vision, and emerging mobility technologies. The lab’s research sits at the intersection of computer science , civil engineering , and smart mobility. On the intelligence side, the group highlights machine learning, computer vision, vision-language models, and digital twins/simulation for urban mobility. On the ap...

UCLA Mobility Lab is advertising multiple openings for PhD students , postdoctoral scholars , and research engineers in Physical AI for Autonomous Driving , V2X , Robotics , and Mobility Intelligence . The positions are led by Prof. Jiaqi Ma at the University of California, Los Angeles , with work spanning the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Computer Science. Research themes include generative AI for safe autonomy, embodied reasoning, safety-aware intellig...

UrbanITY Lab at the University of Central Florida is advertising PhD and postdoc openings focused on building AI for safer, smarter cities. The research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence , machine learning , computer vision , transportation , and emerging mobility technologies. Research topics mentioned include digital twins , vision-language models , traffic safety , smart work zones , VRU safety (vulnerable road user safety), and connected and autonomous vehicles . The lab is...

University of California, Irvine is advertising 2 postdoctoral positions in the Laboratory for Autonomy and Robotics in Construction (PI: Yu Otsuki ) within the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Center for Resilient Autonomous Systems. The research focuses on autonomous robotics for construction and earthmoving applications, including off-road autonomous driving for construction vehicles , Autoware-based modular to end-to-end autonomy , perception, planning, localization, s...