Connectionists: endowed, tenured chair in Computational Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins

[Jason Eisner]

Dear connectionists (post #1 of 2):

ML researchers are welcome candidates for this endowed professorship
in *computational
cognitive science*.  Please consider applying.  Or alert your favorite
distinguished researcher who combines interests in artificial and natural
intelligence.

This is one of 50 new chairs made possible by a recent $350 million gift to
JHU. Some will be ML-related, and I'll separately post the one on *ML for
healthcare*.  Questions welcome.

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship
in *Computational Cognitive Science*


*Joint Search by the Johns Hopkins University School of Arts and Sciences
and School of Engineering*

The Johns Hopkins University seeks an internationally recognized leader as
a tenured, endowed Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the area of
*computational
cognitive science*. We seek an individual whose research agenda in
computation and cognition will further bring together the University's
Whiting School of Engineering and Krieger School of Arts & Sciences through
their shared interests in computational modeling and human cognition. This
leader will pioneer new directions, interact with existing collaborative
research efforts, and help guide additional faculty growth in this major
intellectual area. This position is one of 50 new Bloomberg Distinguished
Professorships, designated for outstanding scholars to carry out
interdisciplinary research and teaching in areas identified for significant
growth at the University.

New advances in computational modeling and machine learning, along with new
sources of behavioral data, are opening up opportunities to build more
complete and accurate models of intelligent behavior. The Johns Hopkins
initiative in the Science of Learning
<http://scienceoflearning.jhu.edu/>(SoL) is a focus of the
University's current capital campaign. It seeks to
bring together the university's strengths in machine learning, cognitive
science, neuroscience, education, and domain-specific areas such as
language and vision, in order to understand the nature of learning at all
levels of scientific inquiry (from synaptic changes to educational
strategies). This search in computational cognitive science is one of
several SoL-related searches that will recruit new Bloomberg Distinguished
Professors and other faculty to drive progress on neural, cognitive, and
computational approaches to learning. These professors will also benefit
from the Whiting School of Engineering's strategic initiative in Leveraging
Data to Knowledge.

Bloomberg Distinguished Professors will hold formal tenured appointments in
departments of two or more schools of the university--in this case, in
the Department
of Computer Science <http://www.cs.jhu.edu/> and the Department of
Cognitive Science <http://cogsci.jhu.edu/>. They will participate fully in
the research, teaching, and service missions of their departments,
including undergraduate and graduate education. For this position, the
ideal candidate will have an international reputation based on research and
teaching accomplishments that involve both computational modeling and human
data. The candidate will be suitable for a tenured appointment at Johns
Hopkins University.

The appointee will enjoy many opportunities to engage with other
world-class units in the Science of Learning initiative, including the Center
for Language and Speech Processing <http://www.clsp.jhu.edu>, the Center
for Imaging Science <http://www.cis.jhu.edu/>, the Machine Learning
Group<http://ml.jhu.edu>,
the Vision Sciences Group <http://www.jhuvisionsciencesgroup.org/>, the Center
of Excellence in Human Language Technology <http://hltcoe.jhu.edu/>,
the Psychological
and Brain Sciences Department <http://pbs.jhu.edu/>, the School of
Education<http://education.jhu.edu/>,
and the renowned Hopkins neuroscience community that includes the Mind/Brain
Institute <http://krieger.jhu.edu/mbi> and the School of Medicine's Department
of Neurology. <http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/>

Applicants should send their Curriculum Vitae (ideally including links to
publications) as a single PDF file to compcogsci-bdp-search at jhu.edu.
Applications will be reviewed beginning *April 30, 2014* although later
applications may be considered. Additional information is available at
http://cs.jhu.edu/BDP. The Johns Hopkins University is committed to
enhancing the diversity of its faculty, strongly encourages applications
from women and minorities, and is an EEO/AA employer.
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