Assistant Professor of Statistics

Posting Summary

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00138PO25 Advertised Title Assistant Professor of Statistics Campus Columbia College/Division College of Arts and Sciences Department CAS Statistics Advertised Salary Range We offer a competitive salary and benefits package. Location of Vacancy Part/Full Time Full Time Hours per Week 40 Position Category Full-time Equivalent (FTE) Basis 9 months Work County Richland Tenure Information Tenure-Track/Tenured Job Search Category Faculty

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Position Description

Advertised

Job Summary

The faculty of the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia campus, invites applications for a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2026. The position is part of the University President's AI Initiative that includes a cluster of hires in the areas of data science, visual arts, psychological neuroscience, and computational linguistics.

The Department of Statistics in the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences currently consists of fourteen tenured/tenure-track faculty and nine full-time instructors. Current research areas of the faculty include survival and reliability analysis, Bayesian statistics, latent variable methods, item response theory and psychometrics, semiparametric and non-parametric inference, group and pooled testing, highly-structured or high-dimensional data, statistical learning, machine learning, functional and object data, scalable and post-selection inference, and statistical genetics.

The department has about 35 full-time graduate students and offers PhD, MS, and BS degrees. For more information about the Department of Statistics, please visit out website t.sc.edu.

Required

Education and Experience

* The position requires a doctoral degree in Statistics, Biostatistics, or Computer Science or other related field with a research focus in Statistics and Data Science, Machine Learning, or Artificial Intelligence by the starting date of the position.

Preferred Qualifications

* Preferred applicants will have a strong record of or potential for publishing research in top-tier outlets, high potential to secure external research funding, the ability to develop effective research collaborations within and outside the department, and eagerness to teach a variety of statistics courses with excellence at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Posting Detail Information

Desired Start Date 08/16/2026 Job Open Date 08/21/2025 Job Close Date Open Until Filled Yes Special Instructions to Applicant

Review of applications will begin November 17, 2025 and will continue until position is filled. Inquiries about the positions may be sent to Karl Gregory, gregorkb.edu. Applicants must include (1) a cover letter that describes their research and teaching interests, (2) a curriculum vitae, and (3) the names and email addresses of 3 references. Reference letters should be sent directly to Faculty Search.edu.

Positions are advertised for a minimum of five (5) business days on our job website. After five (5) business days, positions can be closed at the discretion of the department at any time. This position is open until filled. This employment site is updated on a regular basis. The length of the recruitment and screening process may vary from position to position, depending upon a variety of factors.

Should review of your qualifications result in a decision to pursue your candidacy, you will be contacted by phone or email.

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