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College of IST Hire Information
The Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) at Penn
State University is hiring multiple Tenure-track or Tenured faculty as part of the second year of an ambitious
multi-year cluster hire in AI across multiple university campuses. These faculty will complement a strong cohort
of over 30 existing AI faculty plus many more whose work leverages AI to advance the sciences and
engineering. The focus of this year’s search is on faculty with expertise in AI
+ Materials, AI + Health, and Foundations of AI. Ideal candidates’ research will focus on AI + X, meaning faculty
who advance AI methods to solve scientific problems in different disciplines (X), rather than X + AI, where
faculty use existing methods.
The Department
of Informatics and Intelligent Systems in the College
of Information Sciences and Technology, at the Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA, partners with ICDS on this co-hire initiative,
and seeks to hire an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor whose research and
teaching advance innovative artificial intelligence methods for health and
biomedicine. The successful candidate will establish an externally funded
research program; develop new AI methods for electronic health records,
biomedical images and videos, genomic and multi-omics data, physiological
signals, or other multimodal health data; teach undergraduate and graduate
courses in artificial intelligence, data science, biomedical informatics, or
related areas; mentor students and postdoctoral scholars; collaborate with
computational researchers, biomedical scientists, clinicians, and health-system
partners; and contribute to departmental, college, university, and professional
service.
The college aims to strengthen Penn State’s leadership in AI +
Health by connecting foundational and methodological advances in AI with
important problems in diagnosis, prognosis, precision medicine, computational
biology, medical informatics, and human health. The successful candidates will
join a vibrant, interdisciplinary research community at Penn State and will
have collaborative opportunities and access to extensive resources offered by
the interdisciplinary research institutes.
Candidates must possess a PhD in Information Science, Computer
Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Informatics, Bioinformatics,
Computational Biology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistics, Applied
Mathematics, or a closely related discipline before their appointment start
date at Penn State.
Applicants should submit a single PDF through the
application portal containing the following materials in this order: cover letter, teaching statement, research statement, the
names and contact information for four references, and their curriculum vitae. The cover letter should
explicitly specify the area (AI+Health) and the tenure-home department
(Informatics and Intelligent Systems) to which the applicant is applying.
Applicant review will begin in October 2026. For full
consideration, please submit applications no later than December 7, 2026.
Penn State Academic Ranks Defined:
Assistant professors should show early promise in teaching or
research through emerging scholarly or professional contributions. Associate professors should have a
record of high-quality publications and demonstrate teaching excellence in their field. Full professors
should demonstrate a distinguished record of advanced work and leadership, reflecting established excellence in
teaching, mentoring, and/or research.
