Assistant Teaching Professor in HDSI

The University of California, San Diego invites applications from outstanding candidates for one or more Assistant Teaching Professor positions within the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) to meet the long-term instructional needs in the growing field of Data Science. Teaching Professors are full members of the academic senate and are eligible for Security of Employment, analogous to tenure. The Assistant Teaching Professor position (formal title "Lecturer with Potential Security of Employment") is a faculty appointment with a primary emphasis on teaching university students, in addition to pedagogical and/or disciplinary research. The normal teaching load expected for Teaching Professors is two courses per quarter at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.

We seek applicants who are interested in teaching-focused careers, and who will excel at developing and teaching courses in data science. While applications from all areas of data science will be considered, we especially encourage those with teaching or research experience in data visualization, probability and statistics, distributed processing systems, database systems, software development, and/or programming languages to apply. Information on current undergraduate courses taught in HDSI can be found at https://dsc-courses.github.io/, and more information on HDSI can be found at https://datascience.ucsd.edu.

This position requires teaching of university students and applicants are required to have a PhD or Advancement to Candidacy at the time of application in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or a related discipline.
Successful appointees will have a track record of excellence in teaching, research accomplishments, a commitment to university service, and a commitment to support diversity, equity, and inclusion at the university. The University of California, San Diego is committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student body.