Faculty, IR, NLP, Data Sciences, Visualization

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Positions

This posting will expire on November 30, 2012.

The School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for multiple full-time, tenure-track faculty positions, anticipated to start in Fall 2013. We are considering applicants at both the junior and senior levels. Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

We seek candidates with excellent research and teaching abilities and a commitment to shaping the future of the school and the discipline of information studies. We welcome applications from excellent candidates who can enhance our offerings in any area of information studies, including technical areas such as information retrieval and natural language processing, data sciences, visualization, digital libraries, educational and assistive technologies, security and information assurance, informatics, and especially human-computer interaction and design. Candidates must hold a doctorate degree in a field that is relevant to their area of research and be able to articulate clearly a research agenda that fits within the School's core areas of focus.

Our program is ranked among the top ten programs in information studies. Admission to our graduate-only degree programs is highly competitive. Our students are high academic achievers, many of them with undergraduate majors in the humanities or social sciences. With over 20 faculty members and lecturers, the School is home to approximately 300 graduate students. The School moved into new facilities in 2009 with extended labs and class space, and offers cutting-edge research and education on the human, social and cultural aspects of information, broadly construed.

Application Instructions
Applications will be accepted until positions are filled, but we will begin to evaluate applications and invite candidates on November 1, 2012.

Send inquiries and applications, including curriculum vitae, a statement outlining how you see a fit with our program, and the names of three references by email to: facultysearch@ischool.utexas.edu