The Grainger College of Engineering: Professor (Open Rank) – Computer Science – 1020851-6689

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Computer Science

The Grainger College of Engineering

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign invites applications for full-time tenure-track faculty
positions at all levels (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full
Professor). The CS department is in a growth phase and we have hired
over 25 tenure-track faculty in the past three years. While we welcome
applications from exceptional candidates in all areas, we particularly
encourage applications from senior and mid-career candidates.

The Department is also participating in campus-wide searches for faculty
in four areas: Neuro-Informatics: Big Data Computational Systems
Neuroscience; Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Digital
Transformation; AI for Community Health; and IMMERSE: Center for
Immersive Computing. Candidates should state in their cover letter if
they are interested in a strategic cluster hiring initiative and list
which other participating departments they have applied to, if any.

We seek applicants that will contribute to the diverse, vibrant, and
inclusive atmosphere in the department as we strive to make computings
remarkable opportunities available to everyone through the continued
expansion of our research and teaching activity in Urbana-Champaign, in
Chicago, and online. Quantum computing faculty will engage with a
growing campus and state-wide quantum research community through the new
Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST) and
the Chicago Quantum Exchange.

The Department of Computer Science is home to U.S. News & World Report
top-5 undergraduate and graduate programs and is a key component of The
Grainger College of Engineering at Illinois, one of the nations elite
engineering schools. Our history is, in part, the history of computing.
From the ILLIAC to Blue Waters, MPI to OpenMP, Mosaic to YouTube, and
the first vectorizing compilers to LLVM, Illinois CS faculty, students,
and alumni have long been at the forefront of computing research and
innovation. CS Department faculty have been founders of multiple startup
companies including Reconstruct, Runtime Verification, Veriflow Systems,
and others. Companies that have been founded or led by Illinois CS
graduates include C3, Malwarebytes, Match.com, Microsoft, Netscape,
Optimizely, PayPal, YouTube, and Yelp.

Illinois Computer Science includes more than 120 core faculty, 80
affiliate faculty, 24 postdocs, and 60 staff, and enrolls more than 2500
undergraduate and over 2600 graduate students, including more than 500
PhD students. The Department faculty includes 20 IEEE Fellows, 18 ACM
Fellows, and 47 NSF CAREER Award winners. Our research embraces all
major technical specializations in the profession, and is at the heart
of the University of Illinois rich network of interdisciplinary
centers and institutes such as the National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA), the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and
Technology, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), the Carl R. Woese
Institute for Genomic Biology, the Health Care Engineering Systems
Center, two NSF AI Institutes, and the recently announced IBM-Illinois
Discovery Accelerator Institute. We are pioneering innovations in
computer science education, including new cross-disciplinary CSX and
XDS (data science) degrees for undergraduates, our new iCAN program for
non-computing college graduates, and a growing online Masters Program,
and our faculty are contributing to the worlds first engineering-based
College of Medicine. More details about the department can be found at
http://cs.illinois.edu .

Applicants are required to have (or expected to receive) a Ph.D. or
equivalent terminal degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Additional qualifications include the ability to teach effectively at
both the graduate and undergraduate levels and the potential to initiate
and carry out independent research. Ideal candidates include those who
demonstrate evidence of a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
through research, teaching, and/or service endeavors.

Application review and interviewing will begin immediately. Applications
received by December 1, 2023, will receive full consideration, but
applications will be accepted until all positions are filled. Salary
will be commensurate with qualifications. The preferred starting date is
August 16, 2024, but is negotiable. To apply for this position, please
create a candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu . The application
package should include a cover letter, CV, research statement, teaching
statement, and a statement on commitment to diversity, along with names
and contact information of at least three references who will be
contacted to provide letters. Please submit these documents all in a
single PDF file as an upload in the “CV/Resume” section. The statement
on diversity should address past and/or potential contributions to
diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, teaching, and/or
service. Applicants who desire confidentiality should explicitly mention
this in the