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Washington State University Multiple Tenured/Tenure-Track/Career-Track Faculty Positions in Cybersecurity in Pullman in Pullman, Washington
Multiple Tenured/Tenure-Track/Career-Track Faculty Positions in Cybersecurity in Pullman
Title:
270-NN_FACULTY - Assistant Professor
Business Title:
Multiple Tenured/Tenure-Track/Career-Track Faculty Positions in Cybersecurity in Pullman
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Location:
Washington State University
Employee Type:
Faculty
Job Family:
Faculty - Academic - Not OT Eligible
Position Details:
Washington State University (WSU) is starting a new research and education program to meet burgeoning demand for computer scientists with expertise in cybersecurity. This initiative is supported by $2 million in Washington state funding. To support this cybersecurity program across three WSU campuses (Everett, Pullman, and Tri-Cities), we plan to hire up to nine faculty in cybersecurity. We invite applications for permanent full-time tenured/tenure-track/career-track teaching faculty positions in the broad area of cybersecurity at the assistant/associate/full professor level. Some specific cybersecurity areas (including but not limited to) are systems/application security, privacy-preserving computing, applied cryptography, formal methods for security, security of machine learning systems, machine learning for security, hardware security, IoT and cyber-physical systems security, differential privacy and applied cryptography. Candidates can select their preference for WSU campus and the position level. The new faculty will have numerous collaboration opportunities with several large initiatives within the WSU system including (but not limited to) the https://natlab.wsu.edu/grid/, https://cyser.wsu.edu/, and https://agaid.org/.
Washington State University is one of the nation's top 50 public research universities in computer science according to U.S. News and World Report. WSU is among 108 public and private universities in America recognized with the "very high research activity" categorization and among 240 universities and colleges nationwide to earn the "community engagement" classification from the Carnegie Foundation.
WSU Pullman: The new faculty will join 37 existing tenure-track faculty members in the https://school.eecs.wsu.edu/, which has experienced rapid growth over the past four years. In 2021 approximately 1200 undergraduate students, and 275 graduate students are enrolled in the School. EECS expects continued increase in enrollments and anticipates multiple faculty hires over the next few years. The current faculty composition in the School of EECS includes a member of the National Academy of Engineering and ten fellows of national professional organizations as well as fourteen CAREER and Young Investigator award recipients. Our graduate students have recently won multiple prestigious awards including Microsoft Research fellowship, IBM Research fellowship, and NSF Computing Innovation fellowship.
With a population of 34,000, Pullman is a quintessential college town---ranked #1 in the "Best Cities to Live in Washington" by the Washington state Chamber of Commerce 2019 report, one of the top 10 best college towns in the nation according to MSN's 2012 report; ranked #15 safest college town in America by a SafeWise 2019 report; and recognized by Bloomberg Businessweek as the "Best Place to Raise Kids" in Washington State. Pullman consistently boasts one of the top school districts in the state. Situated to the east of the Cascade Mountains, Pullman enjoys a dry four-season climate (21 inches of annual participation), with sunny, warm summers, relatively mild winters, and excellent access to outdoor recreational opportunities.
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