Campus Description: Stony Brook University, home to many highly ranked graduate research programs, is located 60 miles from New York City on Long Island’s scenic North Shore. Our 1,100-acre campus is home to 24,000 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students and more than 13,500 faculty and staff, including those employed at Stony Brook Medicine, Suffolk County’s only academic medical center and tertiary care provider. The University is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities and co-manager of nearby Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a multidisciplinary research laboratory supporting world class scientific programs utilizing state-of-the-art facilities such as the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the National Synchrotron Light Source, and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, and the NewYorkBlue IBM BG/L+P supercomputer, owned by Stony Brook and managed by BNL. Stony Brook is a partner in managing the Laboratory for the Department of Energy, and is the largest institutional scientific user of BNL facilities. As such, many opportunities exist for collaborative research, and in some cases, joint appointments can be arranged.
| Descriptive Title: Assistant Professor | REF#: F-8382-13-12 |
| Budget Title: same as above | Faculty Position |
| Department: Computer Science | Campus: Stony Brook West Campus/HSC |
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Salary: Commensurate with Experience |
Required Qualifications: PhD or equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong record of research productivity, including relevant conference and journal publications (e.g., SIGCHI, CVPR, SIGGRAPH). Demonstrated inclination for and/or potential for collaborations both within Computer Science as well as within broader disciplines, especially in cDACT-related areas, such as art, music, theater, dance, cultural studies, and writing/rhetoric.
Preferred Qualifications:
Responsibilities & Requirements: The Computer Science (CS) Department at Stony Brook University, in conjunction with the Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology (cDACT), seek a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computer Science in the area of digital media. Candidates in the following areas are particularly encouraged to apply: computer human interaction, computer vision, computer graphics, animation, digital photography, visual web, auditory display, audio signal processing, social media, portable computing and video analytics.
The mission of cDACT, now in its seventh year, is to foster and support collaboration in creation/scholarship/research, in innovative interdisciplinary curriculum, and in the presentation of themed events, involving intersections of the arts, humanities and sciences, mediated by technology. This hire is part of a bold new interdisciplinary initiative to expand research and teaching in emerging fields of study that cut across traditional boundaries of academic disciplines. The positions are designated for faculty members whose research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary. The goals of this initiative are to strategically place Stony Brook University on the emerging frontiers of research and knowledge and to enhance our ability to shape new fields of discovery, learning, and engagement.
Special Notes: This is a tenure track position. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Internal and external search to occur simultaneously. **Review of applications will begin on January 25, 2014, but the position will remain open until filled.
The selected candidate must successfully clear a background investigation.
Application Procedure: Those interested in this position should submit a State employment application, cover letter and resume/CV to (electronic submission tohttps://cdact-hiring.cs.stonybrook.edu/index.pl is highly preferred)alternatively application materials may be submitted to:
Kathy Germana
Computer Science Department
Computer Science Building, Room# 2434
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4400
| Applications for this position must be received, as specified in the Application Procedure Section, no later than 5:00 PM Eastern Time on 01/25/2014**, unless specifically noted otherwise in the Special Notes Section. |
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