Assistant Professor - Urban Analytics

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Job no: 530167
Position Type: Faculty Full Time
Campus: UMass Boston
Department: Urban Planning&Community Devel
Pay Grade: 04
Date opened: 23 Sep 2026 Eastern Daylight Time
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The Department of Urban Planning and Community Development (UPCD) in the School for the Environment at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Urban Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) beginning September 1, 2027.

We seek scholars whose research and teaching integrate urban planning, computational methods, and artificial intelligence to examine complex challenges facing communities, cities, and regions. The successful candidate will contribute to planning scholarship and practice through community engaged and innovative applications of urban analytics and AI that support more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable communities, cities, and regions.

About UMass Boston: UMass Boston is an urban public research university with a teaching soul, whose impact is both local and global. We are the third most diverse university in the country - more than 60% of our undergraduate students come from minoritized communities and groups and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend a college or university.

Thus, our students come to us from richly diverse life experiences and backgrounds; they bring to our classrooms and research settings the robust range of perspectives growing out of the socio-cultural, economic, and historical contexts in which they have lived, along with the challenges they encounter, engage, and strive to overcome. We invite applications from candidates who engage the diverse life experiences of our student body, who appreciate that students bring their holistic selves into the academic setting, and who recognize and articulate how their own life experiences and backgrounds have shaped their journeys, practices, and commitments as researchers, scholars, and educators.

About the School for the Environment (SFE): SFE is an interdisciplinary hub at UMass Boston that tackles the diverse challenges of the natural, built, and social environments through teaching, research, and outreach. SFE engages in innovative, equity-driven approaches that address environmental and societal problems, focusing on the health of communities and ecosystems in the Greater Boston area and beyond. SFE offers undergraduate, master’s, and PhD programs, with faculty expertise spanning environmental science, environmental studies, marine science, and technology.

At SFE, faculty and students collaborate to pursue transdisciplinary research and solutions, fostering partnerships with communities, organizations, and government agencies.

About the Department of Urban Planning and Community Development (UPCD): UPCD is a mission-driven program grounded in the pursuit of the just city and region, with a strong emphasis on equity, community development, and applied planning practice. The department has experienced steady growth in enrollment across its BA, Minor, and MS programs in recent years, reflecting increasing student demand for planning education that integrates analytical, policy, and community-engaged approaches.

This position represents a strategic investment in the future of planning education. As AI-enabled tools and computational approaches increasingly shape planning research and professional practice, this hire will play an important role in equipping students with advanced analytical, spatial, and computational…