January 16, 2026 update:
The Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards (One-time national initiative)
With the recent national initiatives of Canada Impact+, I’m happy to invite and nominate candidates who are interested in joining the Mobility Technology Research Group for cutting-edge research and innovations. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in but not limited to: emerging transportation technologies, embodied AI with robotics, railway system and resilience.
Interested candidates please send me an email to my university email address, with subject “Canada Impact+ Applicant” with your CV by January 21, 2026 to meet university internal deadline.
Please ensure to have the correct subject. An email filtering scheme is set and thus incorrect or incomplete applications will not be received.
Feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested!
July 12, 2025 update:
I am hiring 2-3 postdoctoral researchers or PhD students at MoTech Research Group. The 2026 intake is open to all domestic and international candidates. The 2025 intake will give priority to domestic and international candidates who are located in Canada and US. We invite all qualified individuals to apply, in particular, underrepresented groups (e.g., women in engineering). There are three streams with details as below:
Stream A) Regular openings for project-funded postdoc and PhD students.
Stream B) Western University US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award: https://grad.uwo.ca/finances/western_funding/doctoral_excellence_award.html
Stream C) Canada Federal Tri-Agency PhD program: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/cgrsd-besrd_eng.asp
Stream D) Canada Federal Tri-Agency Postdoc program: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PD-NP/cpra-bprc_eng.asp
Interested applicants can refer to the application procedures below to send me an email:
2025/2026 Regular Openings: PhD, Master and Postdoc Positions
Position Descriptions:
Candidates will conduct research in one or more of the following field(s) for public transit, emerging transportation services and railway:
Economic analyses and behavioral modeling.
Operational research and optimizations of integrated and multimodal transportation.
Empirical studies and policy implications of carbon neural transportation and emissions.
Multi-scale spatial-temporal big data analyses and machine learning predictions.
Mobility automation and robotic multi-agent algorithms.
Some of the project details are available in the Projects page.
Required Qualifications:
Candidates with relevant background are all encouraged to apply. PhD and Master students should have strong interests and motivations for transportation research. Postdoc applicants should have strong knowledge and records in the field(s).
Prior programming skills (Python and/or MATLAB and/or Java) are preferred.
Application procedures:
Interested applicants please follow the procedures below to send a single email with the subject [2025/2026/2027 Transport Research Applicant] (if you are in Canada, please use subject [Canada 2025/2026/2027 Transport Research Applicant]) to my Western University email :
Step 1: All applicants please check the admission requirements by the university and department. Please indicate in the first line of your email that “I checked the university admissions and meet (or will meet) the requirements.”
Step 2: In the email, please attach the following documents in .pdf:
1) one-page cover letter indicating your relevant background, interests and motivations. Please also indicate which stream and department you are interested in (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering or Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering or both).
2) one-page research statement.
3) up-to-date transcripts (including Bachelor, Master and PhD transcripts if applicable)
4) CV.
5) one representative publication if there is any.
Please ensure to have the correct subject and complete application package. An email filtering scheme is set and thus incorrect or incomplete applications will not be received.
Review of the applications will start immediately and on a rolling basis. Future updates of this posting will be on the website.
*updated July 12, 2025