Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Khoury College of Computer Sciences

About the Opportunity

The Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University invites applications for multiple tenure-track / tenured faculty positions at all ranks, beginning academic year 2024-25 or 2025-26 .

The tenure home for this position will reside in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, with a potential joint appointment in another Northeastern College, to be determined in consultation with the successful candidate.

Academic rank at the Associate Professor and Full Professor levels will be commensurate with experience and qualifications reflecting a record of demonstrated teaching and scholarly excellence.

Candidates will be considered across . We are especially seeking candidates whose scholarly work contributes to one or more of the following themes, which form the computing-focused priorities of faculty hiring across Northeastern.

Resilient and Trustworthy Systems : areas of interest include systems, distributed computing, databases, security and privacy, cryptography, networking, quantum computing, and trustworthy AI

Next-Generation Software : areas of interest include programming languages, software engineering, software for next-generation hardware, and reliability and robustness of software

Robotics and Foundations of AI : areas of interest include robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, theory, and intelligent decision making

Human Centered AI and Embodied Intelligence : areas of interest include sensing and extended reality, HCI, human-in-the-loop AI, and ML for robotics and other embodied applications

AI for Personal, Public, and Population Health : areas of interest include computing, sensing, and AI solutions for healthcare, including longitudinal monitoring, supporting behavior change, and addressing chronic conditions across populations and cultures

Computer Science and Law : areas of interest include data governance and privacy, legal requirements and cryptography, regulations and new technologies (e.g., generative AI)

Digital Civics : areas of interest include human-centered computing, computer-supported collaboration, ubiquitous computing, visual analytics, smart cities, information ethics, public good technologies, and responsible computing

Responsibilities :

Responsibilities will include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, mentoring students and postdoctoral researchers, conducting an independent research program, and service to the college, university and the profession.

Qualifications :

Candidates must hold a PhD in Computer Science or a related field from an accredited institution by their appointment start date.

Candidates are expected to develop an independently funded research program of international caliber. Candidates should also have demonstrated commitment to fostering diverse and inclusive environments as well as to promoting experiential learning, which are central to a Northeastern University education.

Senior candidates must have an established history of grant support or industry research, with the potential for strong leadership in their research field.

Khoury College has a diverse tenured / tenure-track faculty of 97 and it offers a broad array of research and educational opportunities to students.

Since 2012, the college has hired 161 outstanding tenured / tenure-track and full-time-non-tenure-track faculty members and plans to continue this strategic growth in the coming years.

Faculty research spans all areas of computing and is interdisciplinary across seven of Northeastern’s colleges; 37 of the 97 tenured / tenure-track faculty have joint appointments with other academic departments, including Electrical and Computer Engineering, Art and Design, Health Sciences, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Philosophy and Religion, Business, Mathematics, and Law.

Khoury faculty members are integral to Northeastern University’s multidisciplinary institutes including the Network Science Institute, the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, the Institute for Experiential Robotics, and the new Institute of Experiential Artificial Intelligence.

The college offers three core undergraduate degrees (CS, Data Science and Cybersecurity); eight MS degrees (CS, Health Informatics, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Game Science and Design, Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics, Internet of Things), and four PhD degrees (CS, Network Science, Personalized Health Informatics, and Cybersecurity).

Many of these are interdisciplinary degrees with other Colleges at Northeastern.

Khoury College is committed to broadening participation in CS to increase diversity of thought and demographics. For undergraduates, Khoury offers over 45 combined majors (CS+X) and has recently launched the Center for Inclusive Computing, which has the mission to broaden participation in undergraduate computing programs nationally.

At the graduate level Khoury is now scaling its successful Align MS in CS program for people who did not study CS as an undergraduate.

This includes building a consortium of universities in the U.S. to offer similar programs.

Khoury College has grown rapidly over the last five years in response to increased student demand at the BS, MS, and PhD level and projects a continuation of this growth for the next few years.

We invite you to join a fast-moving, ambitious college with an underlying mission that is best captured by the phrase CS for Everyone.

Northeastern University is home to 27,000 full- and part-time students and to the nation’s premier cooperative education program.

The past decade has witnessed a dramatic increase in Northeastern’s international reputation for research and innovative educational programs.

A heightened focus on interdisciplinary research and scholarship is driving a faculty hiring initiative at Northeastern, advancing its position amongst the nation’s top research universities.

Khoury College has been a major participant in this initiative and will continue the efforts this year, with additional interdisciplinary searches ongoing in related areas.

We will begin reviewing applications as soon as they are received, starting November 1st, 2023, and continuing through the academic year until the search is completed.

Documents to Submit :

CV, Cover Letter, and Teaching, Research, Diversity Statements, and contact information for 3 References (upon request). A link will be automatically sent to you asking for the names of your letter writers shortly after you submit your application.

Research statement : Please describe the focus of your research, including the problems you have identified, the funding you have received to support the work (if applicable), the results you have obtained, and the products of these efforts.

Also, please outline the research directions you foresee pursuing at Northeastern.

Teaching statement : Please summarize your past instructional and / or mentorship experiences, your pedagogical philosophy, your plans / goals for teaching at Northeastern (including existing and proposed courses), and your strategies for teaching and mentoring a diverse cohort of undergraduate and graduate students.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity statement : Please provide a statement of your contributions to diversity that describes your past experience, activities, and future plans to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and belonging in your teaching, research, and service.

Some faculty candidates may not have substantial past activities. If that is the case, we recommend focusing on future plans in your statement.

A more developed and substantial plan is expected for senior candidates.

Additional information and instructions for submitting application materials may be found at the following web site : Careers at Northeastern

Position Type

Academic