🚦 PhD Opportunity – AI for Urban Traffic Control 🚦
📍 Lyon, France – Start: Fall 2025Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence and its impact on sustainable urban mobility?
We’re offering a fully-funded PhD position at the intersection of AI, transportation systems, and urban traffic management.
The research will focus on cutting-edge learning-based methods (e.g., deep reinforcement learning, graph-based modeling) to tackle real-world challenges in urban traffic signal control—a rapidly evolving and impactful field.
You’ll be part of LICIT-ECO7, an interdisciplinary research lab working at the crossroads of transportation systems, data science, operations research, and urban planning.
The lab maintains an active scientific presence through publications in top-tier journals and collaborations with world-class institutions like TU Delft, MIT, UC Berkeley, and ETH Zurich.🌍 Located in Lyon, LICIT-ECO7 is a joint research unit between ENTPE and Université Gustave Eiffel, contributing to the future of smart and sustainable urban mobility.
🧠 Why this PhD?
- Engaging topic with real-world societal impact
- Excellent research environment and mentorship
- Strong international exposure and collaboration
- Access to advanced simulation platforms and urban data
- Interesting funded position supported by the MEGA doctoral school (Université de Lyon)
📩 Interested? Apply before May 5, 2025 via this form:
👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfL8J9zItyc-lQuXOcTQOiN86QCZfA9JAy9wJUDS32NatIaBw/viewform💬 Feel free to share with students or young researchers looking for a meaningful and forward-thinking PhD adventure!
🔗 Learn more about the lab: https://licit-lyon.eu/#about