Assistant​/Associate Professor - Natural Language Processing

Title: Assistant/Associate Professor
- Natural Language Processing

Executive Area: Academic Affairs

College/School/MBU: College of Info & Computer Sci

Department: Computer Science

Work Location: Amherst

Schedule: Full Time

Work Arrangement: Onsite

The Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for tenure-track faculty in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and similar areas, at the Assistant and Associate Professor levels. Exceptional candidates at other ranks (e.g. full professor) may be considered.

About UMass Amherst:
The flagship of the Commonwealth, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a nationally ranked public land-grant research university that seeks to expand educational access, fuel innovation and creativity, and share and use its knowledge for the common good. Founded in 1863, UMass Amherst sits on nearly 1,450-acres in scenic Western Massachusetts and boasts state-of-the-art facilities for teaching, research, scholarship, and creative activity.

The institution advances a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community where everyone feels connected and valued, and thrives, and offers a full range of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees across 10 schools and colleges, and 100 undergraduate majors. We believe every member of our university community can contribute to our ongoing success by striving for the highest level of excellence as we seek breakthrough solutions to mounting environmental, social, economic, and technological challenges in our world.

About the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences:
Celebrating over 60 years of pioneering contributions to computing, the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) at UMass Amherst is home to graduate and undergraduate programs ranked among the top 25 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and CS Rankings. Following a decade of tremendous growth, CICS currently has 94 core faculty, including 1 Turing Award winner, 20 ACM Fellows, 12 IEEE Fellows, 40 NSF CAREER Award winners, and 8 AAAI Fellows.

CICS research encompasses all major technical specializations across the profession and serves as the focal point for interdisciplinary computing research at UMass Amherst, with affiliated research centers such as the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, the Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, the Center for Smart and Connected Society, the Computational Social Science Institute, and the Cybersecurity Institute, and the NIH-funded Massachusetts AI and Technology Center for Connected Care in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease.

The college currently enrolls approximately 300 doctoral students, 600 master's students, and 1,700 undergraduate students in its computer science and informatics programs and continues to build on its history of innovative teaching with new BS and MS concentrations in AI, new certificates in public interest technology, and a growing online master's program. The college's new Computer Science Laboratories building serves as a hub for community, collaboration, and innovation.

The CICS community is united by a revolutionary vision for computing research, education, and outreach, Computing for the Common Good, and is committed to inspiring and educating students from all backgrounds and experiences, while conducting research that improves the lives of the people of the Commonwealth and the world.

About Natural Language Processing at UMass Amherst:
The position would entail joining UMass' rich NLP and AI research environment, with NLP faculty and collaborators in the context of many related areas. Among CICS faculty this includes NLP alongside machine learning, information retrieval, computational linguistics, computational social science, educational technology, digital media, computer vision, multimodal models, biomedical NLP, clinical NLP, child safety, robotics, security, AI safety, software engineering, and other areas;

and elsewhere on campus, with researchers in linguistics, psychology, public policy, health sciences, and more (https://nlp.cs.umass.edu/). Collaborative efforts are encouraged, including through Synthesis Project collaborations with PhD students. CICS fosters an excellent student environment, including many alumni who have gone on to impressive academic and industry positions themselves. Faculty fundraising can be supported through seed grants and CICS’ industry relationships,…