Associate Professor or Full Professor College of Connected Computing Job Nashville area,Tennessee USA,IT/Tech

Vanderbilt University:
College of Connected Computing Location

Vanderbilt University is a private research university located on 330 park-like acres on the western edge of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville is a regional center for culture and technology that has grown alongside the university since Vanderbilt’s founding in 1873.

Open Date

Oct 24, 2026

Description

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Vanderbilt University invites applications for multiple tenured Associate or Full 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.

Senior faculty will have the opportunity to shape the College’s research agenda, build collaborative research programs, and develop its undergraduate and graduate programs. They are expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels, mentor junior faculty and doctoral students, and contribute leadership appropriate to their rank and expertise.

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

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Physical Intelligence. Robotics, embodied and physical AI, computer vision, robot learning, and autonomous systems, including autonomy in cities and other complex real-world environments. Senior faculty will help anchor a new shared robotics facility.

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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. We particularly seek a senior scholar in quantum computing to anchor the area and connect it to Vanderbilt’s planned quantum initiatives.

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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.

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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.

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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. We seek a senior scholar to lead and build this new area.

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Computational Biology. Genomics and bioinformatics algorithms, systems biology, biomedical informatics and natural language processing, AI for health, and other computational approaches to biological…