What are the responsibilities and job description for the Visiting Research Scientist - Civil and Environmental Engineering position at illinois?
Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead or assist in interdisciplinary research projects in transportation, mobility, planning, and/or infrastructure. • Manage and coordinate activities of multiple research groups at ICT. • Propose work plans and oversee execution of research projects. • Work closely with graduate students on modeling, data, and computing.
- Lead preparation of technical proposals and major initiatives. • Identify funding opportunities, knowledge gaps, and research needs. • Formulate research tasks, including detailed deliverables, timelines, allocation of personnel and equipment, and required resources. • Coordinate proposal revisions, submissions, and execution.
- Assist with I-ACT planning. • Represent I-ACT planning team as a liaison to private industry, public agencies, and academic partners. • Participate in and lead working groups for the funding campaign of I-ACT, and support ICT engagement with key stakeholders, partners, and collaborators. • Lead and/or participate in meetings, workshops, and conferences to share I-ACT planning updates, and develop presentation materials. • Manage seed research projects that support I-ACT planning. • Work directly with ICT Director.
- Assume additional duties to further the mission of ICT.
• Draft and revise research reports and write peer-reviewed journal and conference papers based on research findings.
• Present at meetings with sponsors, discuss research findings, follow-up on remaining tasks, and future research areas.
• Work closely with research partners to transfer solutions into practice.