A tenure-track faculty position in AI and robotics

John Yen (yen@cs.tamu.edu)
Sat, 16 Sep 1995 22:00:43 -0500


Dear BISC Member,

Our Department is actively searching for faculty candidates in AI and
robotics area. I will appreciate very much if you can distribute
the enclosed ad to your students and/or colleagues who may be interested
in the position.

Best Regards,

John Yen
yen@cs.tamu.edu

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A Tenure-Track Faculty Position in AI and Robotics

Texas A&M University
Department of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science invites applications for tenure-track
faculty positions at the Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor levels.
Research areas of particular interest are artificial intelligence and robotics. However, exceptional candidates from all areas of specialization will be
considered.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in computer science, computer engineering
or a closely related field, a strong commitment to both research and teaching,
and demonstrated ability to perform research and acquire external funding
appropriate to the rank being sought. Applications from minority and
women candidates are especially encouraged. Texas A&M University is an
affirmative action/equal opportunity employer committed to diversity.

Texas A&M University is a leading national university with approximately
43,000 students and exceptional professional schools in medicine, veterinary
medicine, engineering, business, and architecture. Texas A&M was the first
university with land grant, sea grant, and space grant designations and has
annual federal research support of approximately $322 million. The
Computer Science Department is in the College of Engineering and has 28
faculty members including three NSF PYI/NYI recipients. The department
has a rapidly growing research program and has had over $2 million in
external research funding annually for the past several years including an
NSF infrastructure grant. Areas of significant research within the department
include: vision, graphics and robotics; algorithms, languages and
computability; computer systems and architecture; fault-tolerant computing;
VLSI design and test; computational science and engineering; real-time
computing, software systems; and artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic.

The department and its associated teaching and research laboratories have
exceptional facilities. Specialized labs exist for teaching real-time systems,
microcomputer architecture and the senior design course. Departmental file
servers provide 35Gb of space. Specialized parallel computing systems
workstations for graduate students and faculty with access to the university's
Cray YMP2/116. All department systems are networked with a combination
of FDDI, ethernet, token ring and Appletalk.

Texas A&M University is nestled on a pleasant 5,200-acre campus in the
"golden triangle of Texas." It is a short driving distance to the major cities of
Austin, Houston, and Dallas-Fort Worth. College Station is a desirable place
to live, with many fine residential neighborhoods, low home prices, and a
minimum of urban hassles.

Applicants should send a statement of research and teaching interest, a
complete resume, and the names of at least three references, their addresses
(including email) and telephone/fax numbers to: Faculty Search Committee,
Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station,
Texas 77843-3112. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

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