We seek an innovative teacher-scholar who will establish a nationally recognized, externally funded research program integrating transportation engineering with artificial intelligence (AI), advanced computing, optimization, control, and robotics to advance the analysis, design, and operation of safe, sustainable, resilient, and equitable transportation systems. Multimodal sensing and perception, including vision-language models; prediction of road-user behavior; decision-making, trajectory planning, and control of automated vehicles; cooperative driving and interactions with human drivers and other road users; and safety and reliability under uncertainty.