Graduate Research Assistant - Civil Engineering - #721842501

## Description **Cal Poly Pomona Enterprises Employment Services** **ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSITION VACANCY** **** **SUMMARY**: We are currently searching for one Graduate Student Assistant to work in a research project sponsored by University Transportation Center (UTC), under the supervision of Dr. Yongping Zhang and Yangsong Gu, principal investigators. **** **SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU WILL GET TO DO (this is just a small sampling of work variety):** - Assist with various research activities related to the project, including literature reviews, large-scale data processing, and analysis, mathematical and statistical modeling, and interpretation of results associated with travel behavior during California wildfire events. - Support the preparation of research manuscripts, technical reports, project deliverables and interim and final project reports. - Contribute to data management, visualization, and documentation to facilitate project objectives and dissemination of findings. - Participate in research meetings and collaborate with project team members to advance project tasks and milestones. **** **MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:** - Must be a graduate student - Strong oral and written communication skills in English are required - Strong programming, statistical, and computational skills (e.g., Python, R, MATLAB) - Strong visualization skills (e.g. Python, ArcGIS) - A positive, pleasant attitude with good problem-solving skills **** **PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:** - Experience developing interactive dashboards using Tableau, Power BI, or web-based visualization platforms. - Experience with large-scale data processing, analysis, and visualization - Experience working in interdisciplinary research environments - Strong motivation and enthusiasm for conducting research - Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. - Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations. **** **ABOUT US**: As the largest employer of students on the Cal Poly Pomona campus, the Enterprises offers valuable work experience and hands-on training to approximately 1,500 Cal Poly Pomona students each year. The Enterprises offers positions in various fields; whether it is in the area of technology, science, retail, culinary arts, hospitality1500 management, leadership or research grants, these student employees participate in Cal Poly Pomona's learn-by-doing philosophy and acquire practical skills in their designated field of study. The Enterprises also contributes operating support to nearly 1,100 Enterprises and scholarship programs every year, including Bronco Athletics and the Norman J. Priest Scholarship. In addition, the Enterprises administers grants and contracts, contributes to campus security, and supports several university publications. The Enterprises contributes over $1 million annually to Cal Poly Pomona. **** **** ***CSU along with Cal Poly Pomona Enterprises strongly recommend faculty, staff, and students who are accessing campus facilities to be immunized against COVID-19 or declare an exemption from doing so. The systemwide policy can be found at*** [***COVID-19 Vaccination Interim Policy***](https://calstate.policystat.com/policy/9779821/latest/) ***and any questions may be sent to*** [***fdnhr@cpp.edu***](mailto:fdnhr@cpp.edu)***.*** Cal Poly Pomona Enterprises, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Cal Poly Pomona Enterprises, Inc. may provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodation with the employer.