Applications are invited for multiple tenure-track or tenured faculty positions at the levels of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. A Ph.D. in Computer Science or related areas is required. Outstanding candidates are sought in areas of (1) Software and Computer Security; (2) Software and Computer Systems; (3) Bio/Medical/Health Informatics; (4) Data Mining; and (5) Human-Computer Interface (HCI). Exceptional candidates in other areas will be considered as well. Candidates with the ability to forge interdisciplinary collaborations will be favored. Candidates for senior positions must have a proven record of excellence in research funding, publications, teaching, and professional service, as well as demonstrated ability for developing and leading collaborative research projects. Outstanding candidates for the senior positions will be considered for the endowed Ryder Professorship position. Successful candidates are expected to develop a high-quality funded research program and must be committed to excellence in teaching at both graduate and undergraduate levels.

Florida International University (FIU), the state university of Florida in Miami, is ranked by the Carnegie Foundation as a comprehensive doctoral research university with high research activity. FIU offers over 200 baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degree programs in 21 colleges and schools. With over 38,000 students, it is one of the 25 largest universities in the United States, and boasts a new and accredited Law School and the newly created College of Medicine. US News & World Report has ranked FIU among the top 100 public universities, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine ranked FIU among the best values in public higher education in the country in their 2006 survey.

The School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) is a rapidly growing program of excellence at the University. The School has 31 faculty members (including seven new faculty members hired in the last three years), 1,200 students, and offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and B.S. and B.A. degrees in Information Technology. Its undergraduate program is the largest among the ten state universities in Florida and SCIS is the largest producer of Hispanic CS and IT graduates in the US. The Ph.D. enrollment in the School has doubled in the last four years with around 80 enrolled Ph.D. students. In 2006-07, the School received $2.7M in competitive research grants and leads the similar programs in the State of Florida in terms of per faculty annual research funding. In addition, the school receives an annual average of $2.2M of in-kind grants and donations from industry. Its research has been sponsored by NSF, NASA, NIH, ARO, ONR, NOAA, and other federal agencies. Several new faculty members have received the prestigious NSF CAREER AWARD, DoE CAREER AWARD, and IBM Faculty Research Awards. SCIS has broad and dynamic partnerships with industry. Its research groups include the NSF CREST Center for Emerging Technologies for Advanced Information Processing and High-Confidence Systems, the High Performance Database Research Center, the Center for Advanced Distributed Systems Engineering, the IBM Center for Autonomic and Grid Computing, and other research laboratories. The SCIS has excellent computing infrastructure and technology support. In addition, the SCIS faculty and students have access to the grid computing infrastructure with 1000 nodes under the Latin American Grid (LA Grid) Consortium (http://lagrid.fiu.edu), a first ever comprehensive international partnership, co-founded by IBM and FIU, linking institutions in the US, Latin America, and Spain for collaborative research, innovation and workforce development.

Applications, including a letter of interest, contact information, curriculum vitae, and the names of at least three references, should be sent to Chair of Recruitment Committee, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199. E-mail submission to recruit@cis.fiu.edu is preferred. The application review process will begin on January 15, 2008, and will continue until the positions are filled. Further information can be obtained from the School website http://www.cis.fiu.edu, or by e-mail to recruit@cis.fiu.edu

Women and members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Florida International University is a member of the State University System of Florida and is an equal opportunity/affirmative action/equal access employer.