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The Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University invites applications from distinguished scholars for the new Lanh and Oanh Nguyen Endowed Chair in Software Engineering beginning August, 2009. We are especially interested in candidates whose research integrates software engineering with other areas of computer science or interdisciplinary applications. The chair-holder will provide leadership in conducting research in advanced and emerging technologies, engage with top research institutions, stimulate transfer of innovative technologies to the private and public sectors, and enhance student learning in the recently established software engineering B.S. program.
A Ph.D. or equivalent in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field is required. The successful candidate will have a record of outstanding research and publication in software engineering as well as demonstrated leadership in instruction and in expanding funded research programs. It is anticipated that the chair-holder will have the credentials to join the department as a full professor.
Our department currently consists of 27 full-time tenure-track faculty members with a strong core of research-active software engineering faculty. We offer B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and participate in new B.S. degrees in Software Engineering and in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. We also participate in interdepartmental graduate programs in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Human-Computer Interactions, and Information Assurance. We have about 259 B.S. students, 67 M.S. students, and 102 Ph.D. students. Almost all Ph.D. students are supported by research or teaching assistantships. We have strong research and educational programs in Algorithms and Complexity, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Databases, Data Mining, Information Assurance, Programming Languages, Multimedia Systems, Operating Systems and Networks, Robotics, and Software Engineering. Our department has over $4.2 million in active research grants. With the above interdisciplinary activities included, we contribute to active research and training grants totaling approximately $20 million.
A dynamic faculty, a moderate and negotiable teaching load, a strong graduate program, and a well-funded research program provide an excellent academic environment. In addition, cutting-edge research and education are nurtured through interdisciplinary interactions facilitated by the Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, the Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery, the Center for Integrative Animal Genomics, the Cyber Innovation Institute, the Information Assurance Center, the Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, and the Virtual Reality Application Center.
Iowa State University is a major land-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. It is a pleasant, small, cosmopolitan city with a population of over 50,000 (including about 27,000 students), a vibrant cultural scene, an excellent medical clinic, and a secondary school system that ranks among the best in the United States. Ames is frequently ranked among the best communities in which to live in North America. It was ranked third nationally in terms of highly educated workforce for knowledge-based industry (2005) and 12th nationally for its public schools (2006).
Applicants should send via email a curriculum vita including teaching and research statements, and the names and email addresses of at least five references, to endowedchair-search@cs.iastate.edu.
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