The Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) at Boston University invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor and tenured Associate Professor positions. All candidates pursuing foundational or use-inspired research related to computing and data sciences will be considered (see our current faculty here). Candidates working in one or more of the following broad areas of research are especially encouraged to apply.

• Research focused on core machine learning and theory and methods, including but not limited to deep learning, generative AI, natural language processing, and large language models.
• Research in computational systems and software infrastructures for data science, including but not limited to cloud-scale data engineering and systems for at-scale machine learning & AI.
• Research with ties to the social sciences and humanities, including but not limited to human-centered computing & HCI, economics & computation, sociology, behavioral science, and law & ethics.
• Research with ties to the natural sciences, including but not limited to applications in astronomy, biological & medical sciences, chemistry, neuroscience, physics, and earth & environment.

Candidates whose research also involves machine learning and AI are encouraged to apply both to this solicitation as well as to the Boston University cluster hiring initiative in AI: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28310

An AAU institution with over 37,000 students from more than 140 countries and over 10,000 faculty and staff supporting over 300 programs of study and over $650M of sponsored research projects, BU is one of the largest private R1 universities in the US.

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 language of computation and data and to lay the foundation for innovation-driven, civic-minded computing, data science, and AI. Building on BU’s founding mission of equal access, including being first in the nation to admit women to medical school, to graduate a Native American physician, and to award a PhD to a woman, CDS is committed to building a culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse scholarly community and to increasing participation of all talented students, especially women and other groups who are underrepresented in Computing and Data Sciences. Our university community welcomes differences, encourages open-minded exploration, and upholds freedom of expression.

Required Skills

BU expects excellence in teaching and in research, qualifications required of all applicants include a PhD in a discipline relevant to foundational or use-inspired computing research; a strong record of research; a demonstrated capacity for collaboration; and a commitment to innovation in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Applications can be submitted through the web portal at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28499. Priority will be given to candidates who submit their application by December 1, 2024 but consideration and review of applications will continue on a rolling basis until April 30, 2025.

BU conducts a background check on all final candidates for certain faculty and staff positions. The background check includes contacting the final candidate’s current and previous employer(s) to ask whether, in the last seven years, there has been a substantiated finding of misconduct violating that employer’s applicable sexual misconduct policies. To implement this process, the University requires a final candidate to complete and sign the form entitled “Authorization to Release Information” after execution of an offer letter.

_We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. _

Required Experience

BU expects excellence in teaching and in research, qualifications required of all applicants include a PhD in a discipline relevant to foundational or use-inspired computing research; a strong record of research; a demonstrated capacity for collaboration; and a commitment to innovation in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Applications can be submitted through the web portal at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28499. Priority will be given to candidates who submit their application by December 1, 2024 but consideration and review of applications will continue on a rolling basis until April 30, 2025.

BU conducts a background check on all final candidates for certain faculty and staff positions. The background check includes contacting the final candidate’s current and previous employer(s) to ask whether, in the last seven years, there has been a substantiated finding of misconduct violating that employer’s applicable sexual misconduct policies. To implement this process, the University requires a final candidate to complete and sign the form entitled “Authorization to Release Information” after execution of an offer letter.

_We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. _