PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Optimisation in United States

Susquehanna International Group is hiring a quantitative systematic trader within its Quantitative Research team for the New York/Philadelphia area. The role sits close to live markets and focuses on building and refining fully automated trading strategies that combine quantitative research with trading intuition. The work spans signal generation, execution, market microstructure, portfolio construction, risk management, simulation, and large-scale data analysis. The position is designed for som...

The Intelligent Design Optimization (IDOpt) lab and the Multidisciplinary Analysis and Design Center for Advanced Vehicles at Virginia Tech’s Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering are seeking a postdoctoral associate to work on advanced aircraft design research. The project focuses on computational methods for aircraft conceptual design, multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization (MDAO), and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). The appointee will develop and i...

California Institute of Technology’s Computing + Mathematical Sciences (CMS) Department offers an interdisciplinary postdoctoral environment spanning Computer Science , Applied Mathematics , Communication & Networks , and Control & Systems . The program typically hosts more than 20 postdoctoral scholars and is supported through individual faculty, research groups, and cross-cutting research centers. The posting brings together applications for several CMS postdoctoral fellowship programs, includ...

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) is seeking a postdoctoral scholar in its Applied Mathematics and Computational Research division. The position focuses on developing new mathematics, algorithms, and software for analyzing complex data from Department of Energy experimental facilities. The research spans optimization, Fourier analysis, numerical linear algebra, statistics, machine learning, and high-performance compu...

IBM Research’s Algorithms and Applications group is inviting applications for the 2027–2028 Herman Goldstine Memorial Fellowship , a postdoctoral fellowship based in the Math Sciences Council at IBM Research. The fellowship is hosted within the group’s research environment at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, with close connections to IBM Research activities in Westchester County. The fellowship is centered on research in the theory of algorithms and algorit...

Talayeh Razzaghi, Associate Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, is recruiting a motivated PhD student to join her research group. The opportunity focuses on optimization and machine learning. Applicants should have a strong background in these areas and an interest in pursuing doctoral research in industrial engineering, operations research, mathematical optimization, and machine learning. Prospective students interested in learning more c...

Mateo Daniel Roig Greidanus, Assistant Professor at Kansas State University, is recruiting two PhD students to join the REACT (Resilient Energy and Advanced Converter Technologies) Power Electronics Laboratory. The preferred start is Summer or Fall 2027. The research focuses on two directions: physics-based modeling and Edge AI for cyber-resilient power electronics, and advanced control and optimization of power-electronic systems. Projects may involve converter-level digital twins, physics-info...

Todd Levin, Group Lead of the Energy Economics and Policy Analysis Group at Argonne National Laboratory, is recruiting current Ph.D. students for Graduate Research Aide roles and applicants for a full-time postdoctoral position in power markets and modeling. The work focuses on electricity markets, power system modeling, optimization tools, foundation models, large-scale data management and analysis, and applications of Argonne’s Large-scale Electricity Analysis Framework to power systems and wh...

Assistant Professor Arindam Khanda at Kennesaw State University is looking for a PhD student in Computer Science to join his research group for Fall 2027 . The research direction is centered on high-performance computing , graph analytics , scalable AI , and cyber-physical systems , with interests in parallel algorithms for large dynamic graphs and hypergraphs, complex networks, and optimization for CPS applications. This opportunity is well suited to students with strong interests in computing,...