Assistant Professor College of Connected Computing

Vanderbilt University:
College of Connected Computing Open Date

Oct 24, 2026

Description

This is the page for Assistant Professor (tenure-track) applications. If you wish to apply for the Associate or Full Professor positions, please go here:  .

Vanderbilt University invites applications for multiple tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in computing and related disciplines. New faculty will join Vanderbilt’s new College of Connected Computing, founded on a “computing for all” vision that brings computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence together with a growing set of interdisciplinary areas, such as computational biology, human-computer interaction, computing + society, and computational mind and behavior.

Learn more about the College and its research derbilt.edu.

Successful applicants are expected to develop vigorous, externally funded research programs, teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and mentor doctoral students. The search will place particular emphasis on candidates’ potential to secure external research funding from federal agencies, foundations, industry, or other sources.

Every assistant professor joins an area with tenured colleagues, receives named faculty mentors, and is supported by a start-up package that includes guaranteed doctoral student funding.

This is an open search in all areas of computing research, with particular interest in the following six broad areas:

Physical Intelligence. Robotics, embodied and physical AI, computer vision, robot learning, and autonomous systems, including autonomy in cities and other complex real-world environments.

Foundations of Computing. Theoretical computer science, quantum algorithms and quantum information, optimization, statistics and probabilistic machine learning, numerical and scientific machine learning, and formal methods, with opportunities for courtesy appointments in Mathematics.

Humans, Computing & Society. Computational mind and behavior, including the computational principles underlying perception, cognition, emotion, language, and social interaction at the brain and behavioral levels; human-computer interaction, including human-centered AI, interactive technologies for civic life, learning, work, health, and accessibility; and computing + society, including how computing and society shape one another across culture, organizations, policy, and infrastructure.

Secure & Trustworthy Systems. Security across systems, networks, and software; applied cryptography; usable security and privacy; security of cyber-physical systems and urban infrastructure; and verification of critical and learning-enabled systems.

AI in Education and Computational Learning Technologies. Artificial intelligence in education; learning analytics and educational data mining; human-centered design of computational learning technologies; adaptive and personalized learning technologies; technologies for self-regulated and collaborative learning; AI and computer science education; AI-based educational measurement and assessment; and AI-enabled training and upskilling, with the possibility of joint appointments with Peabody College.

Computational Biology. Genomics and bioinformatics algorithms, systems biology, biomedical informatics and natural language processing, AI for health, and other computational approaches to biological and biomedical data. New faculty join a growing group of senior computational biologists in the College.

We welcome applications across computing, including work that spans or extends beyond the areas listed above. To facilitate review, identify one of the six areas as your primary review area in your cover letter, choosing the closest fit. You may also identify a secondary area and briefly explain…