Assistant Professor​/Associate Professor​/Professor Area of Data Visualization and Visual

University of Maryland – College Park

Open-rank Tenured or Tenure-track Faculty Position focused on Data Visualization and Visual Analytics, to be filled by the College of Information (INFO College).

Final date to receive applications: January 27, 2025

• Data visualization, including accessible data visualizations
• Visual analytics
• Ubiquitous, immersive, and situated analytics
• Benefits and risks of AI for visual analytics
• Cognition and visualization
• Human-computer interaction for visual data representations

• Explainable AI and interpretability in visual analytics
• AI-driven decision support systems in high-stakes settings
• Ethics and fairness in AI visualization
• Multimodal data visualization combining AI insights (text, image, video data fusion)
• Spatiotemporal data visualization for real-time, AI-enhanced analysis
• Visualization for machine learning model debugging and interpretability

We value candidates with use-inspired research agendas that apply data visualization and/or visual analytics to high-impact areas such as public health, environmental sustainability, digital civics, social justice, urban resilience, and economic development.

The successful candidate will engage in an active program of high-impact research, teach at the undergraduate and graduate level, provide research advising to students at all levels, and serve the profession and the University through shared governance.

• Strong scholarship in data visualization, visual analytics, or related fields.
• Demonstrated commitment to teaching and advising at multiple levels.
• Interest or experience in AI integration within visualization or analytics.
• Ability to develop interdisciplinary research projects with societal impact.
• Evidence of commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion in scholarship and teaching.