The College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University is a college that emphasizes a) systems-level thinking to approach global, societal problems, b) multiple methodologies in the pursuit of interdisciplinary research and design, and c) active, collaborative learning to support transformative teaching. To learn more about our vision, mission, goals, structure, faculty and students, please go to http://ist.psu.edu. We are searching to fill multiple positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in our ranks of tenure-track faculty members, who will assist our college in attaining its goals in education, research and service to the community. The College has strengths in six key areas including: 1) Computational Informatics and Science; 2) Organizational Informatics; 3) Social Policy, Economics and Informatics; 4) Human-Computer Interaction; 5) Cognition and Networked Intelligent Systems and 6) Security, Privacy and Informatics.
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We seek applicants who show clear evidence that they will become or are leading scholars and premier teachers in their fields and are interested in being part of a vibrant, civil and diverse academic community.
Although we welcome applications from a broad variety of areas that match the research interests in the college, we are particularly interested in applicants who would like to pursue research and teaching in the following
areas: 1) Enterprise Architecture; 2) Biomedical/Health Informatics; 3) Computational Informatics; 4) Security & Risk Analysis. We are interested in applicants who approach these areas from either a social, cognitive, or computational perspective or a combination of these perspectives.
Qualified candidates are invited to submit their curriculum vitae, summary of research and teaching plans, as well as the contact information of four persons who will write letters of recommendations at http://recruit.ist.psu.edu . For questions, please contact Dr. Prasenjit Mitra, Faculty Search Committee Chair, 313F IST Building, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-6823 or via email to facsearch@ist.psu.edu .
Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2013, and continue until the positions are filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce.