Postdoc Research Associate - Aerospace Engineering

Iowa State University•Ames, IA

About The Position

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities: The Postdoctoral Research Associates will work under the direction of Prof. Abhishek Halder and will conduct interdisciplinary research in the areas of stochastic control, optimal mass transport, and the Schrödinger bridge. They will pursue collaborative research publications and will help mentor graduate students. The position requires a Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) in engineering, computer science, operations research, mathematics, or a related field. Department/Program & College Description: Iowa State has a long history of educational and research excellence in aerospace engineering. This includes training students for engineering careers in aviation, starting as early as 1928; housing one of five NASA centers of excellence in Computational Fluid Dynamics in the 1970s; building the world’s first Tornado and Downburst simulator; and housing the only university icing research wind tunnel in the United States.

Requirements

Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) in engineering, computer science, operations research, mathematics, or a related field.
Strong analytical, computational, and written communication skills evidenced by a publication record in the area of control theory, mathematical optimization, AI, or machine learning.

Nice To Haves

Publication record in optimal mass transport, Schrödinger bridge, stochastic calculus, in venues such as IEEE TAC, Automatica, SIAM J. Control and Optimization, SIAM J. Mathematics of Data Science, CDC, ACC, NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, ICML, JMLR, TMLR

Responsibilities

Conduct interdisciplinary research in the areas of stochastic control, optimal mass transport, and the Schrödinger bridge.
Pursue collaborative research publications
Help mentor graduate students.