PhD Openings in Construction Workforce Analytics, AI-Driven Built Environments, and Intelligent Construction Systems at Purdue University Purdue University in United States

Purdue University is advertising PhD student openings for Spring 2027 or Fall 2027 in the Ph.D. in Technology program at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, within the Bowen School of Construction.

The openings are associated with Wii Lab (Heung Jin Oh) and S2-HUB (Soowon Chang), and focus on research in construction workforce analytics, AI-driven built environments, and intelligent construction systems.

Research directions include: (1) construction workforce, labor demand, and learning analytics using large-scale job posting data, with methods such as statistics, machine learning, NLP, and LLMs; (2) AI-driven modeling and simulation for intelligent built environments, including AI, digital twins, BIM/VDC, simulation, sustainable infrastructure, and data-driven decision making; and (3) intelligent construction systems, BIM, safety, sensing, computer vision, spatiotemporal modeling, multimodal data, and human-centered field intelligence.

Applicants from construction management, civil engineering, architectural engineering, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, information technology, or related fields are welcome. The post emphasizes strong quantitative and computational skills, and encourages prior experience with programming, statistical methods, simulation, machine learning, and related data-driven research methods.

To apply, email [email protected] with only a CV and the completed contact form. The post asks applicants not to send additional materials at this stage. Strong candidates will be contacted for a follow-up meeting.

No funding details or deadline date are specified in the post. The opportunity appears to be a research-focused PhD recruitment at Purdue University in the United States.