NYU CERA PhD Scholarship 2027 - Fully Funded at Tandon

CERA stands for the Climate, Energy and Risk Analytics Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. It is not a university-wide award with a committee. One professor, Yuki Miura, is recruiting PhD students into her own group with funding attached, through the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Center for Urban Science and Progress. The lab builds AI and physics-based methods for measuring and managing climate and infrastructure risk.

Yes, according to the lab's own recruitment notice. Successful candidates get full tuition coverage, a competitive PhD stipend, health insurance and research and conference support. The notice gives no figure, but Tandon publishes its rates for 2026-27: the first-year School of Engineering fellowship pays $3,600 a month plus a one-time $4,000 welcome bonus and tuition remission of up to 9 credits a semester, and a research assistantship pays $3,700 to $3,900 a month before the qualifying exam and $3,950 to $4,150 after it, for 20 hours of work a week on average. Tandon does not remit tuition in the summer term.

The lab reviews interest forms on a rolling basis, so there is no cut-off on that step. The hard date is the formal application: NYU Tandon requires all PhD applications and materials, test scores included, by 1 December for Fall entry, which means 1 December 2026 for Fall 2027. The lab's form also lists Spring 2027 as a possible start, while the Tandon deadlines page says PhD programmes do not accept applications for Spring. If a January start matters to you, email Dr. Miura and the MAE department before you pay the application fee.

Yes. Nothing in the lab's notice or in Tandon's PhD admission requirements limits the position to US citizens or permanent residents, and the current group includes students and visiting researchers from outside the US. International applicants need an English test score of TOEFL 90, IELTS 7.0, Duolingo 125, PTE Academic 65 or Cambridge C1 Advanced, unless they hold a four-year US bachelor's or a US master's. One thing that is citizenship-bound is the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which is open only to US citizens and permanent residents.

Usually yes. The Mechanical Engineering PhD asks for a master's in mechanical or aerospace engineering or a closely related field, with a GPA of 3.5 or better in that work. Applicants holding a bachelor's in mechanical or aerospace engineering with a 3.5 or better may apply directly to the doctorate. Tandon's general graduate floor is a four-year bachelor's with a 3.0 GPA, so the PhD bar sits above it.

No. Every graduate programme at NYU Tandon is GRE optional, and the test is not required for admission anywhere in the school. If you decide your scores help your case, ETS must send them officially using institution code 2668. Two recommendation forms, on the other hand, are required for PhD applicants.

Five directions are on the table. Modelling cascading failures across connected infrastructure with networks and graph neural networks. Quantifying how badly infrastructure breaks under extreme events. Building exposure datasets from satellite imagery with vision-language models. Using generative and foundation models to simulate hazards. And reinforcement learning or optimisation for adaptation planning. Application areas include flooding, wildfire, urban systems and large-scale risk modelling, much of it with New York City agencies.

Start with the interest form linked from the lab's Join Us page rather than a cold email, since that is the route the lab asks for. Dr. Miura's NYU address is yuki.miura at nyu.edu and her office is at 370 Jay Street in Brooklyn. The lab also takes postdocs, visiting MS and PhD students, and NYU students who want guided study for credit, each with its own email subject line listed on the same page.