At RIDER, we have a vibrant group of graduate students from all over the world. As of 2025, we have more than 70 graduate students working on groundbreaking projects that include but are not limited to making landfills safer and reducing emissions of harmful greenhouse gases, developing groundbreaking AI methods to improve vital transportation data, investigating the indirect effects of hurricane flooding on indoor air quality and respiratory health, enhancing electric vehicle batteries’ safety, discovering how microplastics move through waterways, improving resilience of building materials, using fiber optic sensing to improve safety of residential structures, better predicting hurricanes’ paths, identifying critical evacuation and emergency response routes, and developing new methods for removing and reusing debris left behind by hurricanes.

After they graduate, our students get employed at prestigious national and global organizations across academia and industry. If you are a student who is planning to pursue your graduate education in engineering, check the Current Opportunities available at RIDER to potentially work with our world-class faculty researchers.