Assistant Professor Tenure Track

The School of Computing and Information Systems (SCIS) at the Singapore Management University (SMU) has one tenure track faculty position, Assistant Professor, in the discipline of Computer Science & Engineering.

We strategically hire to build critical mass and innovative capability in our core research areas and integrative research domains. In particular, weare keen to expand our faculty expertise in AI Governance (Privacy, Security,Safety, Ethics), AI in Cybersecurity, Embodied AI, Quantum Computing, Smart Financial Technology and Green Computing.

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

Data Management & Mining
,including databases; data mining; natural language processing; data visualisation and analytics; recommender systems; social sensing and activation.

Decision Making & Optimization
,includinglarge-scale optimization and meta-heuristics; economic paradigms (game theory,mechanism design, electronic markets); agent modeling and simulation; agentplanning, scheduling and decision support; agent learning and adaptation;reinforcement learning and inverse reinforcement learning.

Machine Learning & Intelligence
,including machine learning and adaptation; deep learning; computer vision; machineintelligence; explainable AI; cognitive/brain-inspired computing; human-centricAI; intelligent assistants; intelligence augmentation; human-in-the-loop AI.

Human-Machine Collaborative Systems

Embodied& Pervasive Systems, including sensing & sensor information processing;
IoT and embedded systems; embodied AI and robotics systems; mobileand pervasive systems; context-aware and edge computing platform.

Multimedia Systems
,including generative media; social media; multimedia search; computer graphics; augmented reality; virtual reality.

Human-Computer Interaction
,includingaccessibility; human-AI interaction; human-robot interaction; informationvisualization; collaboration systems; wearable computing.

Information Systems & Technology

Software Engineering
,including AI for SE; SE for AI; softwareanalytics; formal methods; software testing; software maintenance &evolution; human-aspects in SE; engineering IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems &drones; sustainable SE.

Cybersecurity
,including decentralised/distributedtrusted systems; biometrics; computer forensics; data, media content and related applications security and privacy; software and system security;information security and usability; information security economics and risk analysis, modeling & metrics.

Information Systems Management
,includingeconomics of IT and management science; empirical methods, econometrics, andpolicy analytics; sharing economy and IT platforms; digitalisation and processtransformation; fintech; marketing and healthcare IT; information security,technology innovation and IT impacts; interdisciplinary studies across the coreareas.

Learning& Work

Urban & Sustainability

Health& Wellbeing

Safety,Security & Fairness

While we encourage and nurture applied researchaddressing real-world problems, we simultaneously cultivate and value bigideas, and research that is intellectually deep and thought provoking. Our faculty target their academic output primarily in the most-selective,academically prestigious venues. We want our faculty striving to createresearch outputs that advance thinking and scholarship in the core research areas, and also seeking real-world impact in the integrative research domainsin “the world of business”.

We offer extremely attractive salary and benefits that are usually superior to international competitive benchmarks.

A premier university in Asia, the Singapore Management University(SMU) is internationally recognised for its world-class research and distinguished teaching. Established in 2000, SMU’s mission is to generate leading-edge research with global impact and produce broad-based, creative and entrepreneurial leaders for the knowledge-based economy. SMU education is known for its highly interactive, collaborative and project-based approach to learning, and for its technologically enabled pedagogy of seminar-style teaching in small class sizes.

The School of Computing and Information Systems(SCIS) offers an exceptionally supportive and inspirational environment for academic scholarship and research, applied R&D projects, and innovative education initiatives. We currently have around 59 tenure-track faculty members working across research areas in computer science &…