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Date: 2023-10-18 12:04:54+00:00
From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman.sheji@icloud.com>
Subject: AI Cluster Faculty Search (2024)

Dear Colleagues,

Here is a job announcement that may be of interest to some subscribers to this
list.

https://www.bu.edu/cds-faculty/culture-community/join-us/faculty-positions/ai-hiring-initiative-2024/

Ken Friedman

AI Cluster Faculty Search (2024)

Boston University (BU) invites applications for eight tenure-track faculty
positions as part of a 3-year cluster hiring initiative in Artificial
Intelligence (AI). This university-wide initiative, led by the Faculty of
Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) in partnership with six schools and colleges at
BU (Arts & Sciences, Business, Communication, Education, Engineering, and Law)
aims to recruit a cadre of scholars working on foundational, methodological, and
use-inspired dimensions of AI to be appointed in academic units spanning the
disciplines of Computer Science, Philosophy, Mathematics & Statistics,
Electrical & Computer Engineering, Education, Emerging Media Studies,
Information Systems, and Law. Founded in 2019 and housed in an iconic 19-story
building, CDS is a university-wide academic unit created to connect BU’s 17
schools and colleges through the common language of computation and data and to
lay the foundation for innovation-driven, civic-minded computing, data science,
and AI.

All candidates pursuing basic or applied research in data science, machine
learning, and AI will be considered. Candidates from underrepresented groups and
candidates working in one or more of the following dimensions of AI are
encouraged to apply:

(1) Foundations. Foundational research in the theories that enable the
conceptualization, development, evaluation, and application of AI, including the
exploration of connections with topics in areas such as philosophy, cognition,
logic, algorithms, mathematics, statistics, biology, and physics.

(2) Methodologies. Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement machine learning
methods and platform of broad applicability, including deep neural networks,
federated learning, scientific machine learning, natural language processing,
large language models, and multimodal learning.

(3) Use-Inspired. AI research inspired by or tackling problems in areas beyond
computing, including human-centered socio-technical systems, behavioral
neuroscience, education, epistemology, communication, media, business,
economics, ethics, law, public policy, regulatory compliance, and future of
work.

BU expects excellence in teaching and in research, and is committed to building
a culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse scholarly community, which is
essential to its mission. BU is an AAU institution with a rich tradition of
inclusion and social justice. We are proud of our record, including being the
first American university to award a PhD to a woman and the university from
which Martin Luther King Jr. received his PhD. We are dedicated to increasing
participation of all talented students, especially women and other
underrepresented groups in Computing and Data Sciences.

Qualifications required of all applicants include a PhD or equivalent degree; a
strong record of research; a demonstrated capacity for cross-disciplinary
collaboration; and a commitment to innovative teaching.

Qualified faculty candidates are invited to submit their application materials
through the search web portal at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25744,
indicating which of the academic units participating in this cluster hiring
initiative they would like to be considered for. Review of applications will
start on November 1, 2023 and will continue on a rolling basis until April 15,
2024.

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