Fully funded Ph.D. positions are immediately available in my research group at UMass Lowell

University - Mechanical engineering
Match Rate
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Stage
Ph.D
Duration
48 month
Fund
25000 USD
Fee
75 USD
Deadline
Sep 15, 2025
Start
Jan 20, 2025

About the position

Fully funded Ph.D. positions are immediately available in my research group at UMass Lowell. We are seeking to hire candidates with a background in computer vision for NDT&E and automated damage detection.

Exam Requirements

IELTS
Listening
6.5
Reading
6
Writing
6.5
Speaking
6.5
Overall
6.5
TOEFL
Listening
20
Reading
20
Writing
20
Speaking
20
Overall
80

Research Interests

  • Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)
  • Non-Destructive Evaluations (NDE)
  • Smart Structures
  • Sensors Development
  • MEMS-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Experimental Mechanics
  • Acoustics
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Dr. Alessandro Sabato

Assistant Professor
Bio

Dr. Alessandro Sabato joined the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell as a Post-doctoral research fellow in October 2015 working on innovative sensing and data analytics for structural evaluation using (1) computer vision techniques, (2) unmanned aerial vehicles, and (3) MEMS devices. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the same department working on integrating non-contact, wireless, and computer vision measurements with unmanned vehicles for automated assessment of the dynamics and structural response of large-scale engineering systems. Dr. Sabato earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy with a joint appointment at Columbia University in December 2014. At Columbia, he also served as a Research Associate by leading projects on large-scale experimental testing for vibration-based monitoring of oil-drilling pipelines to reduce the risk of oil-spill and environmental disasters and in the instrumentation of heritage buildings for the measurement of earthquake-induced vibrations. He and his group received more than $1.5M in research funding including support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), Federal Highway Administration and Department of Transportation (FHWA/DOT), and a number of private companies and industrial partners. In his free time, you can find him cooking (do not forget he is Italian), playing basketball, or in the great outdoors taking photos, hiking, canyoneering, and surfing.