AI Innovation Research Assistant Professor

Stony Brook University:
Provost Office:
Centers & Institutes: AI Institute

100,000

The AI Innovation Institute (AI3) at Stony Brook University invites candidates for a large cohort of research assistant professors with generous startup packages that include full support and research funding for two years and tapered thereafter. Internally supported by the Presidential Innovation and Excellence Fund derived from a recent $500M Simons Foundation donation to Stony Brook University, AI3 is a new university-wide institute that aims to drive both innovative research in the core of AI as well as the diffusion of AI across nearly every industrial, societal, and scholarly sector.

AI3 includes more than 70 faculty members with interests ranging from novel algorithms, architectures, and mathematical / ethical foundations to applications in art, biological sciences, business, climate sciences, health sciences, humanities, journalism, libraries, music, materials discovery, physical sciences, and social sciences.

Stony Brook University has a bucolic setting conducive to curiosity-driven research while embedded in the New York City and New England regions that catalyzes industrial and societal engagement. AI3 research faculty will be encouraged to drive their own research programs in the service of significant scholarly and societal impact.

As a member of the prestigious AAU, co-manager of famed Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), flagship university of the State of New York, and having global research facilities from Korea to Kenya, Stony Brook University provides deep connections for meaningful AI and domain collaborations. As a key participant in Empire AI (a $565M+ investment in AI infrastructure), AI3 researchers will have access to significant shared compute resources.

Beyond groundbreaking research that transforms current AI paradigms and changes the world, research assistant professors will have modest service duties around missions of AI3 such as public engagement. Teaching opportunities both on-campus and for professional education will be made available, if of interest.

Applications should hold a PhD (or foreign equivalent). The search committee will evaluate both research accomplishments and potential. Candidates seeking to bridge multiple disciplines or bring AI into new scholarly/societal domains are particularly encouraged to apply.

Applications will be processed on an ongoing basis until all positions in this prestigious inaugural cohort are filled. The start date is negotiable but can be as early as Summer 2026.

• curriculum vitae and personal website URL
• research statement
• two selected publications (links to publicly open URLs)
• names of two references

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