To pursue the vision, mission, and goal of the SCIIS lab, the lab director looks to assembling a research team with diverse interests across different disciplines, forging relationships with domain experts, and obtaining the support of leading industry partners and major government sponsors.

Graduate Student Opportunities

To maintain and lift the profile of the SCIIS lab in innovative research, Dr. Assaad is constantly looking to recruiting creative, passionate, self-motivated, and talented students to grow the team. Depending on the availability of funding, Dr. Assaad provides competitive, fully-funded opportunities/assistantships for highly qualified candidates. If interested, please send your CV/resume, academic transcripts, GRE scores, and TOEFL (or IELTS or Duolingo) scores, previous research outputs (thesis, journal papers, conference papers, etc.) if any, a personal research statement, and any questions you may have to: rayan.hassane.assaad@njit.edu

Dr. Assaad also welcomes self-funded students who are interested in pursuing either a Master's or Ph.D. degree and who wish to do advanced research under his supervision. Dr. Assaad will support the application process of these students. Based on the student’s performance and availability of funding, the student might be transferred to fully funded graduate assistantship after few semesters of their start date or when funding availability allows that.


Internships and Visiting Scholars

The SCIIS lab welcomes national and international students, individuals, or visiting scholars who are interested in doing advanced research in the area of smart construction and intelligent infrastructures as well as in being exposed to the state-of-the-art technologies in the industry. If interested, please contact Dr. Assaad at rayan.hassane.assaad@njit.edu


Research and Multidisciplinary Collaborations

The SCIIS lab constantly looks to interact with other researchers from different fields and eagerly strives to collaborate on multidisciplinary and interisciplinary research, educational, and outreach projects; whether nationally or internationally. For collaborations, please contact Dr. Assaad at rayan.hassane.assaad@njit.edu


Industry and Sponsor Engagement

The SCIIS lab heavily and continuously seeks industry innovation through high-quality collaboration with industry partners and sponsors that are eager to support in strengthening its innovation, development, reasearch, and academic/teaching capabilities. In its turn, the lab is commited to unleash the potential of its collaborators, partners, and sponsors. The lab also welcomes international engagements. For industry or sponsor partnerships, please contact Dr. Assaad at rayan.hassane.assaad@njit.edu