The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science starting August 1, 2018. We are looking for candidates who show exceptional promise in both research and teaching. Preferred research areas are those that build upon our existing areas of strength, which include artificial intelligence, big data analytics, bioinformatics, databases and data mining, foundations of computer science, human-computer interaction, networking, and security, but applicants in other research areas are also encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in candidates who can pursue interdisciplinary research in the natural and social sciences. The most promising areas of collaboration are with Biology (bioinformatics and computational biology) and Statistics (big data analysis and graph/network analysis).
The Department of Computer Science at UNCG is a thriving department with an established, ABET- accredited B.S. degree program and an active M.S. degree program, and is experiencing rapid enrollment growth. The department currently has 9 tenured and tenure-track faculty members who are all active in research, as well as lecturers and part-time faculty. For more information on the Computer Science Department, visit the Department's web page at www.uncg.edu/cmp.
UNCG is a public coeducational, doctoral-granting residential university chartered in 1891, with a Carnegie classification of RU/H (Research University/High Research Activity). UNCG is a Minority Serving Institution, with an undergraduate student body consisting of 28% African Americans and 8% Hispanic or Latino Americans. UNCG and the Department of Computer Science foster an environment of collaboration across departments and schools and support community-engaged research. UNCG is proud of the diversity of its student body and we seek to attract an equally diverse applicant pool for this position. UNCG is located in a metropolitan area of more than 1.6 million in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian Mountains. UNCG is an EOE/Affirmative Action/M/F/D/V employer and is strongly committed to increasing faculty diversity.
Review of applications will begin on January 15, 2018 and continue until the position is filled.
Candidates must hold or anticipate a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related discipline by August 1, 2018.
Submit curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and four letters of reference through UNCG JobSearch at jobsearch.uncg.edu. You may direct your informal inquiries to Dr. Stephen Tate, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27402 (cssearch@uncg.edu).