Assistant Professor (Career-Track) Faculty Position in Cybersecurity

Washington State University (WSU) in Everett WA has started a new research and education program to meet burgeoning demand for computer scientists with expertise in cybersecurity. This initiative is supported by $2 million in Washington state funding. We invite applications for a 9-month academic year, full-time career-track teaching faculty in the broad area of computer science at the assistant professor level.

The position will be considered for a 2-year fixed term appointment (with renewal contingent upon performance). Some specific areas (included but not limited to) are systems/application security, privacy-preserving computing, applied cryptography, formal methods for security, security of machine learning systems, machine learning for security, hardware security, IoT and cyber-physical systems security, differential privacy, and applied cryptography. The successful candidate will be expected to implement evidence-based pedagogy in undergraduate computer science and computer engineering education to support our cybersecurity, computer science, computer engineering, and software engineering degrees.

The new faculty will have numerous collaboration opportunities with several large initiatives within the WSU system including (but not limited to) the WSU-PNNL Advanced Grid Institute (AGI), DOD-funded CySER Institute for cybersecurity, and NSF-USDA AgAID AI Institute. About WSU, Everett, Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, and the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Washington State University is one of the nation’s top 50 public research universities in computer science according to U.S. News and World Report.

WSU is among 108 public and private universities in America recognized with the “very high research activity” categorization and among 240 universities and colleges nationwide to earn the “community engagement” classification from the Carnegie Foundation. The new faculty will join faculty members in the School of EECS which has experienced rapid growth over the past few years. EECS expects continued increase in enrollments and anticipates multiple faculty hires over the next few years.

The current faculty composition in the School of EECS includes a member of the National Academy of Engineering and twelve fellows of national professional organizations as well as nineteen CAREER and Young Investigator award recipients. Our graduate students have recently won multiple prestigious awards including Microsoft Research fellowship, IBM Research fellowship, and NSF Computing Innovation fellowship. Washington State University Everett is a student- and community-centered campus, located in the seventh-largest city in Washington State.

The Everett campus provides the unique opportunity to align world-class WSU academics directly with industry partners whose headquarters are next door in the Puget Sound area, including Boeing, Microsoft, Naval Station Everett, and more. WSU Everett is well-equipped with server hardware, advanced networking capabilities, sufficient storage capacity, and a dedicated subnet for cybersecurity related activities. WSU Everett offers top-tier higher education to serve the local community, bringing the Coug experience to the west of the Cascades.

Less than 40 minutes from Seattle, Everett is a bustling business epicenter with a majestic natural backdrop. Snohomish County’s largest city is home to the second-largest marina on the West Coast and Boeing’s jumbo jet assembly plant, the largest building by volume in the world. WSU acknowledges that its locations statewide are on the homelands of Native American peoples, who have lived in this region and have been caretakers of the land from time immemorial.

The Morrill Act of 1862 established our land-grant institution by providing public and federal lands that are traced back to the disposition of Indigenous lands, often taken by coercive and violent acts, and the disregard of treaties. For that, we extend our deepest apologies. We owe our deepest gratitude to the Native peoples of this region and maintain our commitment towards reconciliation.

And as a land-grant institution, WSU is deeply…