[Imageworld] Tenure-track faculty opening in Vision/Learning at Penn State University

[Robert Collins]

Tenure-track faculty opening in Vision/Learning at Penn State University.

Applications are invited for several tenure-track faculty positions at 
all ranks. Outstanding candidates in all areas of computer science and 
engineering will be considered. Areas of particular interest are: 
software systems with an emphasis on operating systems, storage systems, 
and virtualization; computational discovery including combinatorial 
scientific computing, data mining, modeling and visualization; and 
computer vision and machine learning.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) has 32 
collegial, tenure-track faculty. The university is committed to growing 
the faculty ranks over the next several years. Eleven members of our 
faculty are recipients of the NSF Career Award. In recent years, our 
faculty received seven NSF ITR Grants, a $2.5M Research Infrastructure 
Grant, eleven NSF combined Cyber Trust and Networking awards, and 
several awards from DARPA and ARL. There are state-of-the-art research 
labs for computer systems, computer vision and robotics, microsystems 
design and VLSI, networking and security, scientific computing, 
bioinformatics and virtual environments. The Department offers a 
graduate program with over 40 Masters students and 140 Ph.D. students, 
and undergraduate programs with minimum GPA requirements in computer 
science and computer engineering. In December, 2003, the Department 
relocated into a new 100,000 square feet building 
(http://www.cse.psu.edu/info/istbuilding.php).

Penn State is a major research university and is ranked third in the 
nation in industry-sponsored research. Computer science is ranked 11th 
in the nation in research expenditures. US News and World Report 
consistently ranks PSU's College of Engineering undergraduate and 
graduate programs in the top 15 of the nation. The computer science and 
engineering undergraduate and Doctoral programs are ranked in the top 20 
by the US News and World Report. As reported in the Chronicles of Higher 
Education, computer science is ranked 3rd and computer engineering is 
ranked 8th in the nation, respectively.

The university is located in the beautiful college town of State College 
in the center of Pennsylvania. State College has 40,000 inhabitants and 
offers a variety of cultural and outdoor recreational activities nearby. 
The university offers outstanding events from collegiate sporting events 
to fine arts productions. Many major population centers on the east 
coast (New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Baltimore) 
are only a few hours drive away and convenient air services to several 
major hubs are operated by four major airlines out of State College.

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in computer science, computer 
engineering, or a closely related field and should be committed to 
excellence in both research and teaching. Support will be provided to 
the successful applicants for establishing their research programs. We 
encourage dual career couples to apply. Applications should be received 
by January 31, 2008 to receive full consideration. To apply by 
electronic mail, send your resume (including curriculum vitae and the 
names and addresses of at least three references) as a postscript file 
or pdf file to recruiting at cse.psu.edu. Applications may also be sent by 
mail to:

Chair, Faculty Search Committee
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
FIX, Box BIO
University Park, PA 16802-6106 USA
For more information about the Department of CSE at Penn State, see 
http://www.cse.psu.edu. Click here to fill out an Affirmative Action 
Applicant Data Card. Our search number is 015-48. You MUST include this 
search number in order to submit this form.

Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the 
diversity of its workforce.

Original posting at 
http://www.cse.psu.edu/resources/employment/facultyemp.php