Assistant/ Associate/ Full Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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You are invited to submit an application to be considered for a position with more than one opening. The number of positions varies depending on the needs of the department. Rank and compensation will be based on experience and academic credentials.

 

Founded in 1819, the University of Cincinnati ranks among the nation’s best urban public research universities. Home to nearly 48,000 students, about 11,000 faculty and staff and 332,000 alumni, UC combines a Top 35 public research university with a physical setting The New York Times calls “the most ambitious campus design program in the country.”

With the launch of Next Lives Here, the Cincinnati Innovation District, a $100 million JobsOhio investment, eight straight years of record enrollment, worldwide leadership in cooperative education, a dynamic academic health center and entry into the Big 12 athletic conference, UC’s momentum has never been stronger. UC’s annual budget tops $1.65 billion and its endowment totals $1.8 billion.

 

About the Department

The ECE Department at UC is one of the largest departments in the College of Engineering and Applied Science. ECE currently has 29 tenured or tenure-track faculty (including 2 IEEE fellows and 7 NSF CAREER awardees) and 7 professor educators. The department is home to 980 undergraduate students, 180 master students, and 100 Ph.D. students. ECE's annual research funding exceeds $7 million.

Job Overview

The University of Cincinnati (UC) Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) (https://ceas.uc.edu/academics/departments/electrical-computer-engineering.html) in The College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) invites applications to fill up to two full-time tenured or tenure-track positions at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor levels with a starting date of August 15, 2024.  We seek candidates in the areas of electrical and computer engineering, such as, but not limited to: Semiconductor manufacturing, devices, and circuits: Analog and digital electronics (VLSI, ASIC, Integrated Systems); Emerging computing systems; Communication theory and systems: Digital and wireless communications; Signals and systems; Signal processing; RF electronics; Cybersecurity: Malware analysis, Reverse engineering; Intrusion detection; Network security; Embedded system security; Hardware security and trust; Security of cyber-physical systems; Formal methods for security; Security-aware VLSI design and design automation; Operating Systems and Computer Networks: Distributed and Real-Time operating systems; Networked and cloud computing systems; Parallel and distributed systems; Computer networks; wireless networks and distributed sensor systems; Artificial Intelligence (AI):  AI approaches for image processing and understanding; representations learning, AI for language, image, and video interpretation, Natural language processing and understanding; Text processing and mining; machine learning systems for Big Data; Deep learning based approaches for image and text processing; Robotics and intelligent autonomous systems; Learning and inference in robotic systems; Human-computer interfacing and collaboration; Neuromorphic systems; Bio-inspired and biomorphic systems; Explainability, security vulnerabilities, and trust in AI systems; Formal verification of AI and machine learning algorithms and their pipelines for security and trustworthiness.

Job Overview Continued

ECE is dedicated to educational excellence and developing and sustaining premier research programs with national and international recognition. The chosen candidates will be expected to contribute (at both the graduate and undergraduate level) to the department’s educational and mentoring mission of preparing students to become high-performing professionals in the workplace. The chosen candidates will also be expected to contribute to the advancement of research missions within the department and college. In addition, the chosen candidates will be expected to further the strategic goals of the Department, the College, and the University via collegial collaboration and teamwork both within the ECE Department and with other CEAS departments, across the University, and with regional industries. The candidates will work with the other Faculty in the Department and the Department Head to reach the goals set by the upper administration which include increasing the enrollment of students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and increasing the overall leve