Institution
University of Maryland - College Park
Job Title
Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor
Department/College
College of Information
Dates
Opening Date: 12/19/2024
Closing Date: 01/27/2025
Job Description
The College of Information at the University of Maryland, College Park (the INFO College), invites applications for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position focused in the area of data visualization and visual analytics. The INFO College particularly seeks candidates whose scholarship and teaching interests are centered and focused on one of the following visualization areas:
- Data visualization, including accessible data visualizations
- Visual analytics
- Ubiquitous, immersive, and situated analytics
- Benefits and risks of AI for visual analytics
- Cognition and visualization
- Human computer interaction for visual data representations
We are also seeking candidates whose research and teaching focus on the intersection of visualization and AI, including areas such as:
- Explainable AI and interpretability in visual analytics
- AI-driven decision support systems in high-stakes settings
- Ethics and fairness in AI visualization
- Multimodal data visualization combining AI insights (text, image, video data fusion)
- Spatiotemporal data visualization for real-time, AI-enhanced analysis
- Visualization for machine learning model debugging and interpretability
Candidates working on other topics related to data visualization and visual analytics are also encouraged to apply. Special consideration will be given to candidates with use-inspired research agendas that apply data visualization and/or visual analytics to high-impact areas such as public health, environmental sustainability, digital civics, social justice, urban resilience, and economic development.
Job Duties
The successful candidate will engage in an active program of high-impact research, teach at the undergraduate and graduate level, provide research advising to students at all levels, and engage in service to the profession and shared governance within the University.
Experience/Qualifications/Knowledge/Skills
Minimum Qualifications:
- A Ph.D. degree at the time of appointment
- Demonstrated research excellence, including a rank-appropriate record of peer-reviewed research in related areas
- Demonstrated effectiveness and innovation in teaching, as appropriate to rank
Preferences:
- Exceptional recognition of research, teaching or service contributions, as appropriate to rank
- A record of, or potential for, securing external funding, as appropriate to rank
- Teaching experience in related areas, as appropriate to rank
- A record of leadership contributions, as appropriate to rank
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