Assistant / Associate / Full Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (RISE AI)

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Job Category : Faculty

Employment Type : Regular

Job Profile : Professor

Job Summary :

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering seeks to hire a faculty member with expertise in foundational AI and machine learning. Desired areas include trustworthy AI foundations : efficient algorithms, optimization theory, and scalable architectures for robust, interpretable, and data-efficient systems. Additional interests span AI in signals, sensing, communications; energy and power systems; and AI-hardware co-design. Outstanding candidates at all levels (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor rank) will be considered.

This position is part of the Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE)-Artificial Intelligence (AI) cluster hire initiative. While the tenure home for this position will be in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), the successful candidate will participate in interdisciplinary and collaborative efforts with other departments, schools and colleges.

Through accelerated and strategic faculty hiring, research infrastructure enhancement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and increased student and educational opportunities, RISE addresses complex societal challenges of importance to the state, nation and world. AI is a field with tremendous possibility for improving the human condition, but it also carries with it a concerning set of risks. It can accelerate the pace of discovery, reflecting a seismic technological shift, but it also requires thoughtful attention to ethics and security. UW-Madison has foundational expertise across research disciplines to address these realities. RISE-AI will advance deep learning and foundation models, natural language processing, signal processing, learning theory, optimization, and related areas. RISE-AI will also ensure AI trustworthiness, mitigate biases, preserve privacy, enhance fairness, help establish AI policy and legal frameworks, and facilitate AI applications to multiple traditional disciplines and promote multidisciplinary collaborations.

Building on UW-Madison's strengths, RISE expands the University's successful track record of connecting with communities and industry on collaborative solutions. Over a three-year period, UW-Madison will substantially increase current hiring levels, bringing 150 new RISE faculty to campus.

Candidates hired through RISE will join a community of scholars working across disciplines, schools and colleges on research, teaching and outreach endeavors. The community will engage regularly in venues such as seminar series and colloquia to share ongoing projects and identify opportunities to work together. The University will support the community, facilitating access to research infrastructure, and funding to support broad and rich collaboration. Further information regarding RISE can be found at : https : / / rise.wisc.edu /

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UW-Madison has a long tradition of excellence in educating, mentoring, and inspiring future leaders; conducting research that is of vital importance to society; and serving Wisconsin, our nation, and the world through professional pursuits. Our 48 tenure-track / tenured faculty (more than 35% of which are women) and 10 instructional faculty are leaders in their fields, respected nationally and internationally for their innovative research and teaching excellence. Approximately 400 graduate students and over 1100 undergraduate students are enrolled in our top-ranked degree programs.

Madison, Wisconsin, a beautiful city of more than 250,000, has been named on top-10 lists for tech growth centers, and consistently ranks as a top community in which to live, work, and play.

Key Job Responsibilities :

Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and contributing to curriculum updates and innovations; mentoring graduate students and supervising their research; developing and directing a successful, extramurally funded research program; participating in departmental and university shared governance; and contributing to professional and public service.

Department :

• College of Engineering, Department Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Contact Information :

Delight Hensler

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

delight.hensler@wisc.edu

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