Job Information
Washington State University Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity - Career Track in Richland, Washington
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity - Career Track
Available Title(s):
158-NN_FACULTY - Teaching Assistant Professor - Career
Business Title:
Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity - Career Track
Employee Type:
Faculty
Time Type:
Full time
Position Term:
9 Month
Position Details:
DESCRIPTION OF POSITION
Washington State University (WSU) has established 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. In this connection, the School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at Washington State University (WSU), at its Tri-Cities campus in Richland, WA, invites applications for a full-time position of Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity. This is a career-track position that focuses on strategic cybersecurity fields, including, but not limited to: 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.
At WSU, career-track Assistant Professors are primarily engaged in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, including laboratory classes and software-design courses; career-track Assistant Professors also engage in another area of faculty activity, such as research or service commensurate with the scope of their appointment. The successful candidate will be expected to provide outstanding teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, mentor undergraduate students, supervise graduate students, make contributions to professional and university service, and participate broadly in the evolution of the school's BS degree programs, one in cybersecurity and the other in computer science, which is accredited by the CAC commission of ABET. Ideally, candidates will have a passion for teaching and enthusiasm for involving undergraduate students in research and project-based learning. Recent PhD graduates and doctoral students who will graduate by July 2024 who are devoted to teaching core undergraduate level computer science and cybersecurity courses are strongly encouraged to apply. Candidates will also have an opportunity to collaborate with overseas colleagues at our partner universities and engineering professors in SEAS and at other WSU campuses.
WSU Tri-Cities is committed to creating a student-ready campus, marked by academic excellence, career-connected learning, and social belonging. This commitment is informed by our belief that all students, faculty, and staff contribute value to our campus culture. We ascribe to an assets-based framework for understanding and celebrating difference and are deeply committed to closing equity gaps where they exist. We are proud that almost half of our students are first in their family to attend college and almost half of our students identify as students of color. We believe that this diversity is a great strength in the classroom and across the many co-curricular activities in which WSU Tri-Cities students participate and lead.
ENVIRONMENT
The new faculty will join https://tricities.wsu.edu/engineering/ an integral unit within the university's https://vcea.wsu.edu/. Among WSU's newest academic units, SEAS offers degree programs in computer science and civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering at the Baccalaureate, Master's, and Doctoral levels, encouraging interdisciplinary initiatives. All the underg