The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has embarked on a focused cluster hiring plan to recruit top-tier researchers as a part of President Taylor Eighmy’s ambitious strategic initiatives. UTSA is currently looking for candidates to fill eight (8) faculty positions to promote collaborative research, education and outreach and to create interdisciplinary areas of knowledge that will advance the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Technological advances in computing capability and speed; access to large datasets and innovative algorithms have accelerated the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our daily lives. By recent analyses, AI would add approximately $8 trillion in gross value to the U.S. economy by 2035.1 This technology will drive creative solutions for societal changes in areas such as, biomedicine, health care delivery, food security, cybersecurity and transportation.2, 3 The complexity of these global problems will require a highly prepared AI workforce and access to exponentially expanding volumes of data and machine learning.
UTSA’s research portfolio has increasingly becoming more transdisciplinary, cutting across areas such as cybersecurity, brain health, engineering, biomedicine, public health, educational transformation, sustainability, business and policy. These areas of research have been further fueled by focused faculty cluster hires in areas including cloud computing, cybersecurity, brain health and analytics and data science. This targeted faculty cluster hire in AI will build on and leverage our established research portfolio, propelling our ability to tackle and solve previously unsolvable problems. Hires are expected to build their own unique programs of research, as well as to collaborate with other hires in this cluster and with colleagues in their home department, college, and other colleges.
San Antonio is a recognized cyber-analytics hub. Given the complexity of problems in transdisciplinary fields, and the opportunity for greater government and industry partnerships, UTSA has established The National Security Collaboration Center (NSCC), to support national security and global defense research in cybersecurity and cloud computing, cyber-attack/deterrence, critical infrastructure protection, analytics, high performance computing, AI, machine learning and visualization. These positions will facilitate outstanding collaborative research to further connect partners in the NSCC ecosystem. NSCC Background: https://www.utsa.edu/strategicplan/tactical-initiatives/nscc/index.html
Required Qualifications and Responsibilities:
Successful candidates will have a Doctoral degree (Ph.D.), publications, and demonstrated research competencies and capabilities commensurate with appointment levels in the department(s) of interest, as well as demonstrated interest in and experience with collaborative teaming and/or transdisciplinary efforts Successful candidates will be expected to develop and maintain externally funded research programs (individual and collaborative), engage in both undergraduate and graduate education, and contribute their leadership, partnering and innovative thinking towards global prominence in their respective discipline. Teaching opportunities will vary by department and teaching qualifications will be considered for fit within respective department(s).
Application Process:
Applicants must submit their full application package via the respective link to each position. For general questions or additional information on this Cluster Hiring Initiative, please contact: Bernard Arulanandam, Interim Vice President for Research, Economic Development & Knowledge Enterprise at Bernard.Arulanandam@utsa.edu or 210-458-8176.
For the complete position announcement and to apply for these positions, please use UTSA’s online application process. Access the UTSA Human Resources website at https://jobs.utsa.edu.
College of Architecture, Construction & Planning
One open rank position (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor) in the Department of Construction Science and Management. Targeted towards faculty with expertise and interest in decision-making, decision support, unsupervised deep learning, current and future data for Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Development of Urban Environments. https://jobs.utsa.edu/postings/10151
College of Business
One position at the Tenure-track Assistant or Tenured/tenure-track Associate Professor level in the Department of Management Science and Statistics. Targeted towards faculty with expertise and interest in applied statistics and experience with AI, machine learning, and operational research within a multidisciplinary environment. https://jobs.utsa.edu/postings/10148
Two positions at the Tenure-track Assistant Professor level in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security. Targeted towards faculty with expertise and interest in conducting research and developing tangible solutions to security challenges, particularly with gathering intelligence from unstructured data sets in real-time. https://jobs.utsa.edu/postings/10100
College of Engineering
One open rank position (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Targeted towards faculty with expertise and interest in AI, especially as it relates to smart health systems, electronic health records, digital health science, cloud computing, public health, or diagnostic radiology/computational imaging/image processing. https://jobs.utsa.edu/postings/10159
College of Liberal & Fine Arts
One open rank position (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor) in the Department of Psychology. Targeted towards faculty with expertise and interest in learning in complex data environments, resources-constrained AI processing, generalizable and predictable AI, deep learning, natural language processing, machine intelligence, super-intelligence, logics for intelligent interaction, logic for multi-agent systems in AI human factors, cyber psychology, privacy issues and healthcare applications. https://jobs.utsa.edu/postings/10099
College of Public Policy
One position at the Tenure-track Assistant or Tenured/tenure-track Associate Professor level in the Department of Demography. Targeted towards faculty with expertise and interest in predictive modeling and data visualization for healthcare demand/burden, urban environments and planning, food environments and systems applications. https://jobs.utsa.edu/postings/10101
College of Sciences
One open rank position (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor) in the Department of Computer Sciences. Targeted towards faculty with expertise and interest in cyber adversarial learning, resource constrained AI, or AI as it relates to cloud computing, bioinformatics and other health-related applications. https://jobs.utsa.edu/postings/10158
As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, it is the policy of The University of Texas at San Antonio to promote and ensure equal employment opportunity for all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. The University is committed to the Affirmative Action Program in compliance with all government requirements to ensure nondiscrimination. The UTSA campus is accessible to persons with disabilities.
For the complete position announcements and to apply for these positions, please use UTSA’s online application process. Access the UTSA Human Resources website at https://jobs.utsa.edu.
Sources:
- https://newsroom.accenture.com/news/artificial-intelligence-poised-to-double-annual-economic-growth-rate-in-12-developed-economies-and-boost-labor-productivity-by-up-to-40-percent-by-2035-according-to-new-research-by-accenture.htm
- https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/whitehouse_files/microsites/ostp/NSTC/preparing_for_the_future_of_ai.pdf
- https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/game-changers-artificial-intelligence-part/
