IEEE Spectrum November, 2014 - 79

Electrical & Computer Engineering at Miami
University, OH: Two tenure-track positions
open at Assistant/Associate Professor level.
Duties: Teach undergraduate and graduate
classes in areas of computer and electrical
engineering; conduct research in related
fields and publish scholarly work; and advise
undergraduate and graduate students and provide service to the department, college and university.
Required Qualifications: Ph.D in Computer or Electrical Engineering or
a closely related field is required by date of appointment. Extensive academic and/or industrial experience -- established record of research and
teaching -- is required at the Associate Professor level. Desired areas
of expertise: all areas of computer and electrical engineering, including
computer architecture/design/ security; distributed and parallel systems;
embedded systems design; robotics and computer vision; bioelectrical
engineering; power systems.
Submit: A letter of application, vita, statement of teaching, statement of
research philosophy/plan and three letters of reference to www.miamiujobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=53959. If applicant does not
have access to letters of reference, they may be sent directly to leamb@
miamioh.edu. Screening of applications begins December 1, 2014 and
continues until positions are filled.
Miami University, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer with
smoke- and tobacco-free campuses, is committed to a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications from minorities, women,
veterans and individuals with disabilities. Miami's Annual Security and
Fire Safety Report with information on campus crime, fires, and safety
may be found at: http://www.MiamiOH.edu/campus-safety/annualreport/index.html. Hard copy available upon request. Employment will
require a criminal background check according to University guidelines.
The Department Of Electrical Engineering And Computer Science (EECS) at Vanderbilt University in
Nashville, Tennessee is seeking a senior scholar and
academic leader to serve as the founding Director of
the Vanderbilt Center for Music, Science and Technology. This Center is envisioned to be a new major
trans-institutional initiative bridging the Schools of Engineering, Music,
Arts and Science, Education and Human Development, Business, and
the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The successful candidate is
expected to be qualified for appointment at the tenured professor rank
in Electrical Engineering and/or Computer Science, and should have an
established, active research program in one or more interdisciplinary
areas that connect music with engineering and the sciences. The candidate also must have a demonstrated track record of building and leading
interdisciplinary research teams. The desired expertise of the candidate
will be consistent with the planned Center research focus areas and
include perception, cognition, and neuroscience of music, audio, and
speech and the human-sound connection; the science and technology
of musical sound production and auditory spaces; audio and musical
sound creation, production, and sound reproduction technologies; music informatics; and/or the kinesiology and psychology of music performance and musical skill learning. Successful candidates are expected to
teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels and to develop vigorous
programs of externally funded research.
Vanderbilt University is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action employer. We strongly encourage applications from women and members
of under-represented minority groups. Applications should be submitted
on-line at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/4598. For more information, please visit our web site: http://eecs.vuse.vanderbilt.edu.
Review of applications will begin immediately, and will be accepted until
the position is filled.

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Kansas
Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering /Computer Science Faculty
The University of Kansas (KU) Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS) seeks outstanding individuals for four tenure
track positions in the disciplines of electrical engineering, computer
engineering, or computer science. Successful candidates are expected to
contribute to the development of academic and research programs and to
contribute to the research community. Applicants are expected to have an
earned doctorate, ABD, or equivalent in electrical engineering, computer
science, computer engineering, or related fields at the time of appointment.
The successful candidate must be eligible to work in the U.S. by the time
of appointment. The following positions are open at the assistant professor
(tenure-track) level, with the possibility of higher rank for the exceptional
applicant, with experience in:
Data Science/Health Informatics -- Data science and applications; large-scale
data analytics; smart health; decision supporting systems in health; text
mining; information retrieval; data mining; machine learning. (http://employment.ku.edu/academic/1781BR)
Computer Architecture and Reconfigurable Computing -- Multiple-core
architectures; Systems-on-Chip (SoC), and Networks-on-Chip (NOC); embedded systems; programmable and adaptive architectures; digital system
design and synthesis; high-assurance, secure, resilient, and cyber-physical
computer architectures; exascale computing architecture and systems;
special purpose computing and memory architectures for data analytics and
retrieval. (http://employment.ku.edu/academic/1779BR )
Bioinformatics - New computationally intensive technologies and software
tools for efficiently; storing biological data, retrieving biological data, organizing biological data, analyzing biological data. Other areas of computer
science focused on computational life sciences maybe considered for exceptional applicants. (http://employment.ku.edu/academic/1780BR )
Wireless Devices, Communications and Applications -- Wireless and sensing
devices integrated into distributed systems to enable new mobile applications; sensors, e.g., radar or biomedical, with integrated wireless communications; wireless devices, sensors and systems applied to challenged
environments, e.g., civilian disasters, or military, or covert communications;
"Networks of things" and distributed sensing; telemetry and applications;
smart grid communications for power distribution and monitoring. (http://
employment.ku.edu/academic/1766BR )
Exceptional applicants in other closely related areas to the above topics may
be considered.
The KU School of Engineering is rapidly expanding and plans to add thirty
new faculty lines, over a 5 year period, with expanded research and teaching
facilities. The University of Kansas is focused on four key campus-wide
strategic initiatives: (1) Sustaining the Planet, Powering the World; (2)
Promoting Well-Being, Finding Cures; (3) Building Communities, Expanding
Opportunities; and (4) Harnessing Information, Multiplying Knowledge. For
more information, see http://www.provost.ku.edu/planning/themes/. Successful candidates should describe in their application materials how their
work addresses one or more of KU's strategic initiatives.
Applications should be submitted at https://employment.ku.edu and click
on Faculty link. Applications should include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of research interests and plans, a statement of
teaching interests and plans, and contact information for three references.
Applications will be reviewed beginning December 1, 2014 and will be
accepted until the position is filled. The appointment will be effective as
negotiated. Questions can be sent to: EECS_Search@eecs.ku.edu. KU is
an EO/AAE. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age,
national origin, disability, genetic information or protected Veteran status.

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