Research Associate (Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Traffic Data Modelling)

• Conduct independent and collaborative research for a commercial grade project.
• Flexible working options.
• Full-time appointment on a fixed term basis until September 2027.
• Base salary range: Level A, $83,499 – $112,371 p.a. (pro-rata) plus 17% superannuation.

About the area

Join the Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC) at The University of Western Australia, where quantitative research supports real-world improvements in traffic safety, efficiency, and system performance.

This position contributes to externally funded research activities within RoadSense Analytics (RSA), a video analytics platform that converts traffic video into structured data describing vehicle, pedestrian, and cyclist movements. You will work with traffic data generated by RSA, including tracked trajectories and derived interaction events. While upstream computer vision and AI models extract this information from video, this ...