Faculty Employment

The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty Position Vacancies

Applications are invited for several tenure-track faculty positions at all ranks.  Outstanding candidates in all areas of computer science and engineering will be considered.  Areas of particular interest are:  software systems with an emphasis on operating systems; machine learning with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary research and applications; and programming languages with an emphasis on parallel languages and parallel processing.  For all of these fields there is a special interest in interdisciplinary work such as cyber-physical systems and predictive computational modeling and simulation.

The department has 32 tenure-track faculty representing major areas of computer science and engineering.  Fifteen members of our faculty are recipients of the NSF Career Award.  Two faculty members have received the prestigious NSF PECASE Award. In recent years, our faculty received seven NSF ITR Grants, a $35M Network Science Center Award, over $4.5M in computing and research infrastructure and instrumentation grants from NSF, eleven NSF Cyber Trust and Networking awards, and several awards from DARPA, DOE, DTRA and DoD.  There are state-of-the-art research labs for computer systems, computer vision and robotics, Microsystems design and VLSI, networking and security, high performance computing, bioinformatics and virtual environments.  The department offers a graduate program with over 40 Masters students and 167 Ph.D. students, and undergraduate programs in computer science and computer engineering.  The university is committed to growing the faculty ranks over the next several years and promoting interdisciplinary research toward cyber-enabled discovery and design.

Penn State is a major research university and is ranked 3rd in the nation in industry-sponsored research. Computer science is ranked 6th in the nation in research expenditures. U.S. News and World Report consistently rank Penn State's College of Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs in the top 15 of the nation.

The university is located in the beautiful college town of State College in the center of Pennsylvania. State College has 40,000 inhabitants and offers a variety of cultural and outdoor recreational activities nearby. The university offers outstanding events from collegiate sporting events to fine arts productions. Many major population centers on the east coast (New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Baltimore) are only a few hours' drive away and convenient air services to several major hubs are operated by four major airlines out of State College.

Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in computer science, computer engineering, or a closely related field and should be committed to excellence in both research and teaching. Support will be provided to the successful applicants for establishing their research programs. We encourage dual career couples to apply. Applications should be received by January 31, 2012 to receive full consideration. To apply by electronic mail, send your resume (including curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of at least three references) as a PDF file to recruiting@cse.psu.edu. Applications may also be sent by mail to:

Chair, Faculty Search Committee
The Pennsylvania State University
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Box F
University Park, PA 16802-6106 USA

For more information about the Department of CSE at PSU, see http://www.cse.psu.edu. Click here to fill out an Affirmative Action Applicant Data Card.  Our search number is 015-92. You MUST include this search number in order to submit this form.

Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce.