<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">UMass Amherst Computer Science is hiring faculty in data science broadly this year and for multiple years to come---at both the junior and senior levels.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Review of applications this season is continuing according to the typical CS timing: peaking in December and early January, with interviews starting in late January or early February 2018.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><font face="Menlo-Regular" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">We have 5 openings in data science this year; 10+ openings over the coming several years; (there are additional faculty openings in other areas this year, as well, including a separate search in data science theory).</span></font><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">I am chairing data science faculty recruiting. I would be happy to receive email and answer questions. </span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><a href="https://www.cics.umass.edu/job/assistantassociate-professor-positions-data-science" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">https://www.cics.umass.edu/job/assistantassociate-professor-positions-data-science</a><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Best,</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Andrew McCallum</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Professor; Director, Center for Data Science</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">College of Information and Computer Sciences</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">UMass Amherst</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">===============================================================</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">data science, broadly:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">machine learning & decision-making, broadly</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">systems & scalable data management, broadly</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">theory & algorithms for big data, broadly</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">...non-exclusive list of examples:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Methods:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">algorithms for big data</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">artificial intelligence & ML with big data</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">databases</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">decision processes and reinforcement learning</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">deep learning</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">distributed systems</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">game theory, mechanism design</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">learning theory</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">optimization</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">parallel-distributed machine learning</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">probabilistic programming</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">scalable probabilistic inference</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">statistical machine learning</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">visualization, interpretable ML, and data exploration</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Modalities:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">crowd sourcing and human computation</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">images & video</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">information integration</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">natural language processing</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">sensor networks and wearable sensors</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">social networks and computational social science</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Applications:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">agriculture, climate, ecology and sustainability</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">computational economics</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">computational biology & bio-medicine</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">education</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">eGovernment</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">energy</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">eScience</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">finance</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">health analytics</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">internet of things</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">manufacturing</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">cities & regions</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">===============================================================</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Our Department became a College in 2015 and we are dramatically growing our current set of ~50 faculty. UMass CS is highly ranked in AI, exceptionally collaborative, and has long-standing broad interests touching many areas of data science. Selected current faculty include:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Mohit Iyyer (NLP & deep learning)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Marco Serafini (distributed systems, databases)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Rahman Tauhidur (mobile health, embedded systems, ML)</span><div class=""><div class=""><font face="Menlo-Regular" class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">* Laura Haas (information integration, databases)</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">* Peter Haas (information management)</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Justin Domke (ML & optimization)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Sunghoon Ivan Lee (mobile & personalized health)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Phillipa Gill (networking & security)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Akshay Krishnamurthy (statistical machine learning)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Arya Mazumdar (information theory)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Joydeep Biswas (robotics)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Subhransu Maji (computer vision & ML)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Brendan O'Connor (NLP and computational social science)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Barna Saha (algorithms & data management)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Alexandra Meliou (databases, analytics & causality, fairness)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Yuriy Brun (software engineering, analytics, fairness)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Dan Sheldon (computational ecology & ML)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Evangelos Kalogerakis (graphics & ML)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Ben Marlin (ML, health analytics)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Deepak Ganesan (sensor and mobile networks, wearable health)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Yanlei Diao (databases)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Gerome Miklau (databases & privacy)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Andrew McGregor (algorithms)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Rui Wang (graphics)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Erik Learned-Miller (computer vision & ML)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* David Jensen (data mining & causality)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Andrew McCallum (information extraction & ML)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Brian Levine (security)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Prashant Shenoy (distributed systems, cloud computing)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Ramesh Sitaraman (theory & parallel/distributed systems)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Shlomo Zilberstein (AI)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* James Allan (information retrieval)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Beverly Woolf (intelligent tutoring systems)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Rod Grupen (robotics)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Jim Kurose (networking, on leave as head of NSF CISE)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Neil Immerman (complexity theory)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Bruce Croft (information retrieval)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">* Don Towsley (networking)</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">===============================================================</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR POSITIONS-DATA SCIENCE</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">About University of Massachusetts Amherst:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Our college is highly supportive of junior faculty, providing both formal and informal mentoring. Many of our faculty are involved in interdisciplinary research, working closely with other departments including statistics/mathematics, linguistics, electrical and industrial engineering, biology, physics, behavioral sciences, economics, political science, and nursing, as well as new green initiatives. Amherst, a historic New England town, is the center of a vibrant and culturally rich area that includes five colleges. For more information about our college, visit </span><a href="https://cics.umass.edu" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">https://cics.umass.edu</a><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Job Description:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">The College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for multiple tenure-track faculty positions in Computer Science for the 2018-2019 academic year. </span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Multiple openings are available for Assistant and Associate level Professors in the field of Data Science. Under exceptional circumstances, highly qualified candidates at other ranks may receive consideration for these openings.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Requirements:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related area, and should show evidence of exceptional research promise.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Additional Information:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Rank and salary will be highly competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience. Inquiries and requests for more information can be sent to: </span><a href="mailto:facrec@cs.umass.edu" style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">facrec@cs.umass.edu</a><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">The university is committed to active recruitment of a diverse faculty and student body. The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer of women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities and encourages applications from these and other protected group members. Because broad diversity is essential to an inclusive climate and critical to the University's goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will holistically assess the many qualifications of each applicant and favorably consider an individual's record working with students and colleagues with broadly diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds in educational, research or other work activities. We will also favorably consider experience overcoming or helping others overcome barriers to an academic degree and career.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Application Instructions:</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">All applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, and statement of teaching interests via the UMass website. Applicants at the Assistant Professor level should submit the names and contact information for three references and links to two papers that best represent their research/experience. Applicants at the Associate Professor level should submit the names and contact information for four references and links to three papers that best represent their research/experience.</span><br style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class="">Review of applications will begin on September 28, 2017 for consideration during the fall 2017/winter 2018 hiring period.</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo-Regular; font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>