BOSTON UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
JUNIOR TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITION
The College of Engineering at Boston University has embarked on a bold new strategic plan that
will pursue excellence and impact along convergent and collaborative research. The College has an opening for a junior, tenure-track faculty member. We seek a
candidate with research interests in the area of Photonics and Computing that aim to create
enabling device technologies, photonic integrated circuits, and optical neural networks for
application in artificial intelligence, computational optics, computer vision, microscopy, robotics and
other computing tasks. This faculty member will join a vibrant group of successful researchers in
the Boston University Photonics Center exploring how photonics can improve the world.
Candidates will likely hold a primary appointment in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Department.
The BU College of Engineering believes that the cultural and social diversity of our faculty, staff,
and students is vitally important to the distinction and excellence of our research and academic
programs. The College is a recipient of the Bronze award for ASEE Diversity Recognition Program.
We are especially eager to have join our ranks a colleague who supports our institutional
commitment to ensuring BU is inclusive, equitable, diverse, and a place where all constituents can
thrive.
The College of Engineering is ranked 16th among private universities, with all of its individual
programs ranked in the top 20. The College is 5th in the nation in total funding from NSF among
engineering schools at private universities. BU ECE faculty lead and participate in several highprofile,
multidisciplinary research centers, including the Center for Information and Systems
Engineering, the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering, the
Center for Systems Neuroscience, the Rajen Kilachand Center for Integrated Life Science and
Engineering, and the Photonics Center.
Boston University expects excellence in teaching and in research and is committed to building a
culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse scholarly community, which is essential to its mission as
expressed at https://www.bu.edu/info/about/diversity. We are proud of our record, including being
the first American university to award a Ph.D. degree to a woman and the university from which
Martin Luther King Jr. received his Ph.D. We are dedicated to increasing participation of all talented
students, especially women and other underrepresented groups in Engineering.
Candidates must hold a PhD in an appropriate area and show potential for leading an independent,
vibrant, world-class research program. BU College of Engineering also places high value on
excellence in teaching and in community. Candidates will be expected to teach both graduate and
undergraduate courses.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by
law. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. |