Now we are looking for MSc. and/or Ph.D. students who want to join this endeavor from Jan. 2025. The hired students will be fully-funded.

The required qualifications are:

  • Empathy to humans

  • Genuine desire to know and expand knowledge

  • Solid motivation why she/he conducts research

  • Mindset and behavior valuing diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI)

  • Research, work and leadershipexperiences proving the above qualities

The examples of the research projects students will be involved in are:

  • Psychophysiological monitoring for construction workers’ safety and productivity

  • Trustable robots to maximize human robot collaboration performance

  • Psychophysiological monitoring for equitable and inclusive built environments (cities not just smart, but empathic)

  • Synergy between extended reality and biosensing in understanding/improving human experience in construction and built environments

  • Psychophysiological mechanism-enhanced explainable deep learning for biosignal processing

  • Synergy between digital twins and reinforcement learning for continuously updating what-if simulations

To Apply: Email to the hub leader, Dr. Gaang (gaang@ualberta.ca). Please put a CV with a brief explanation of why you are a right fit for us.
* Please ensure that the email subject is “Attentive hub applicant.