Applications are invited for a National Science Foundation funded (LEAP HI Program #2051685), Postdoctoral Associate position with the System Performance Laboratory (SPL) (www.splvt.com) in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech. The position will be located at the Virginia Tech Northern Virginia Center in Falls Church, VA. The desired duration of the position is 1+1 (optional year if mutually desired), totaling up to a maximum of two calendar years. The candidate will conduct research and mentoring duties, in addition to optional teaching of one course per year, if mutually desired. Research will focus on multi-level investigation of safety-critical human-in-the-loop systems that collaborate with automated/autonomous decision-aid technologies. Desired interests are interdisciplinary modeling (ideally using economic production theory, more specifically Data Envelopment Analysis, system dynamics modeling/agent-based modeling, and/or Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning not excluding other modeling frameworks) of safety critical socio-technical infrastructure systems. The candidate will be primarily responsible for writing and submitting refereed journal and conference publications, research proposals, preparing project documents and project presentations, assisting in the organization of a workshop, working with large datasets, and developing of software code that complements the existing capabilities of SPL. As part of the position duties will be the expectation that the candidate would travel to Belgium to visit with the engineers and managers at INFRABEL (National Belgian Railway Company).