Join us

We are seeking highly motivated PhD candidates to join our research team. We welcome applications in the broad area of Transportation Systems Engineering, with a focus on, but not limited to:

• Smart Mobility Systems: Design, optimization, and real-time control of multimodal transportation networks.
• Transportation Data Science and Big Data Analytics.
• Electric & Future Mobility: Planning and management of electric vehicle charging infrastructure, fleet electrification, and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems.
• Urban Air Mobility (UAM): Network design, operational logistics, and economic analysis for the emerging low-altitude economy (e.g., drone delivery, eVTOLs).
• AI in Transportation: Development and application of advanced AI models (e.g., reinforcement learning, LLM, foundation models) for traffic prediction, control, and simulation.

Scholarship opportunities:

• The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS): monthly stipend of 28,400 HKD, tuition and fee waiver, cash award, and annual travel grant. See details in https://www.polyu.edu.hk/gs/prospective-students/hkpfs/
• PolyU Presidential PhD Felloship Scheme (PPPFS): monthly stipend of 28,100 HKD, tuition and fee waiver, cash award, and travel grant. See details in https://www.polyu.edu.hk/gs/prospective-students/hkpfs/
• PolyU Research Postgraduate Scholarship (PRPgS): monthly stipend of 19,220 HKD, and travel grant. See details in https://www.polyu.edu.hk/gs/prospective-students/fellowship-scholarship-schemes/
• Dual PhD Degree Programmes: See the list of our partner universities in https://www.polyu.edu.hk/gs/prospective-students/collaborative-phd-programmes/dual-phd-degree-programmes/
• Joint PhD Supervision Scheme: See details in https://www.polyu.edu.hk/gs/prospective-students/collaborative-phd-programmes/joint-phd-supervision-scheme-with-leading-universities/

Eligibility:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in areas like Transportation/Traffic Engineering, Operations Research / Industrial Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Management Science, Computer Science, Automation. (Preferrably, the bachelor’s degree is awarded by a Project 985 university in Mainland China or a prestigious overseas university.)
• A degree for which English was the language of instruction / IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL (Internet-based test) 80.

Students with interest are welcome to send their resume and transcripts to either Dr GU (weihua.gu@polyu.edu.hk) or Dr FAN (wenbo.fan@polyu.edu.hk).