University of Maryland College Park Employment Site | Assistant/Associate Professor/Professor
The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM; aim.umd.edu) has openings for 30 tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined.We additionally have 10 openings for professional track faculty positions; a job ad for those positions will be posted later.As a member of AIM, applicants will join and help further our mission of defining and engaging in interdisciplinary AI research and education across all of the UMD College Park campus, and in building a thriving and inclusive AI community.Located just outside Washington, D.C., the University of Maryland is consistently ranked in the top 15 among U.S.-based institutions for AI-related research and education. In the past five years, faculty at UMD have collectively published over 1300 papers, been awarded over $160m in AI-related research grants, and involved in over 15 UMD-based AI-related centers; just last year, we taught over 17k student credit hours of AI-related courses.Launched in Spring 2024, AIM is a collaborative hub for AI, supporting faculty research, offering innovative and experiential learning opportunities and new degree programs, and focusing on responsible and ethical AI technology to advance the public good across industry, government and society. Against the backdrop of accelerating AI development–including generative AI–across an increasingly wide range of human activities, AIM recognizes that successful models of AI research and education must involve expertise from a wide range of disciplines, including (but not limited to) computer science and engineering, and humanistic and social scientific approaches, as well as experts in other disciplines where AI is on the cutting edge. Including these–and other–disciplines in the development of AI will ensure that this technology is developed in a way that supports people and society while minimizing social inequities and breaking down power structures.Strong candidates will be considered in all areas of AI, particularly those whose research foci align with AIM’s goals. AIM seeks to advance research in AI as it relates to accessibility, sustainability, social justice, and learning, built on computational foundations (e.g., in speech, language, robotics, multimodality, or advanced computing for AI) as well as strong humanistic or social scientific approaches to AI. We construe these research areas broadly, with accessibility including at least disability, aging, neurodiversity and mental health; sustainability including climate, food security, agriculture, aquaculture, and their civic, public health and business impacts; social justice including race, gender, digital inequality, policy, and social and historical relations of power; and learning including the creation, dissemination and acquisition of knowledge across people, teams, and organizations. We are especially looking for candidates that are interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration as well as actively participating in a strong community of AI-related scholars.Successful applicants will have a primary appointment and tenure home either within any department on campus and will hold a joint appointment in AIM. Split appointments involving multiple departments are possible as well. A complete list of academic departments and programs at UMD is available at (umd.edu/academic-departments-and-programs).Salary Range for this position: $48,444 to $240,082
