Fully Funded PhD in Civil Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Sustainability Lamar University in United States

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lamar University (Beaumont, Texas) with a start date of Fall 2026 or Spring 2027 . The position is with Dr. Haoran Li , an incoming Assistant Professor whose research spans AI-driven infrastructure modeling, life-cycle assessment, digital twins, climate-resilient infrastructure, surrogate modeling, and sustainable construction materials. Research topics include: - AI- and data-driven infrastructure performance prediction - Li...

Runhua Zhang is recruiting fully funded PhD students to join the research group in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatics Engineering (CEGE) at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), a Carnegie R1 university in Boca Raton, Florida. The research program sits at the intersection of civil engineering , environmental science , materials science , computer science , and statistics , with topics including sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems, pavement and construction materials, ...

The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures & Composites Center and Department of Mechanical Engineering are recruiting a fully funded PhD student for an ARPA-I funded research team. This opportunity sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence , Machine Learning , composite structures, and bridge engineering . The selected student will work on advanced AI-assisted tools for engineering design and decision support, with research directions that may include generative AI, optimization, c...

Florida International University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is advertising two fully funded PhD positions in Urban Water Systems , Artificial Intelligence , and Machine Learning . The students will join the WISE Research Group and work on NSF-funded projects related to combined sewer overflows (CSOs) , sewer system modeling, and real-time control/forecasting. The research combines computational fluid dynamics (CFD) , the Illinois Transient Model (ITM) , PySWMM , open-sou...

Worcester Polytechnic Institute is advertising a postdoctoral researcher position with Shichao Liu , Associate Professor at WPI. The research will focus on indoor airflow , ventilation , air distribution , indoor environmental quality , and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) . The successful candidate will contribute to a project that combines CFD modeling with laboratory-based measurements and machine learning (AI) . The post specifically mentions use of ANSYS Fluent and OpenFOAM , so applicant...