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Still hiring at OSU: 6 positions open this year

Have I mentioned that we’re hiring?

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University invites applications for up to six full-time nine month tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level in Computer Science. Appointments may be made at the Associate or Full Professor level. We seek candidates with a commitment to quality teaching and with demonstrated research strengths in the areas of databases, software engineering, computer security, distributed systems, and computer vision.

There are also several openings in ECE and across the university (in case you have a two-body problem).  OSU’s enrollment has been growing, and so the faculty is growing with it.  A large, disproportionate portion of the growth has happened among incoming ECE and CS freshman, making our program (which has a fixed number of spots for juniors and seniors) more competitive.

Please spread the word and have your students and colleagues who want to live in paradise apply now.

OSU announces new theoretical computer science group!

More exciting news from Oregon State!  Mike Rosulek will be joining our faculty in September.  Mike will bring some great complexity expertise to our department, but it is for his contributions to the fundamentals of cryptography that we recruited him to OSU.  We are building a security group at OSU, and Mike will lead things off.  Mike Rosulek graduated from UIUC in 2009 (yes, we are continuing our Illinois love-fest, it seems) and has since been on the faculty at the University of Montana where he has impressively continued and built his research program in secure computation and was awarded an NSF CAREER award.*

For Amir and I, this will mean the start of a real TCS group at OSU.  I see seminars and reading groups and generally a more lively theory atmosphere in our future here!

* I think that brings our departmental CAREER count to 21.  Given that we have 41 faculty, some of whom were never eligible for CAREER or equivalent, well, that impresses me!

Algorithms group doubles!

I am super happy to announce that Amir Nayyeri will be joining our faculty at Oregon State next year! Amir completed his Ph.D. with Jeff Erickson at UIUC and has been, for the past year, post-doc’ing at CMU with Gary Miller.  Amir is an expert in combinatorial optimization in computational topology and geometry.  Not only am I excited to work alongside Amir, but our Graphics and Machine Learning groups are also clamoring for more expertise in this area.

As you know, my only complaint about my professional life here has been loneliness.  Amir’s joining us will not only make a huge difference to me, but also my graduate students.  The two of us, I’m sure, will look forward to recruiting more TCS faculty to join us in the future.

Oh, it’s just so exciting!

Many tenure track jobs available at Oregon State University!

Our department is hiring:

The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science invites applications for several tenure-track professorial positions in Computer Science. We are building research and teaching strengths in the areas of programming languages, databases, software engineering, computer systems, computer security and privacy, and algorithms.

There are also several openings in ECE and across the university (in case you have a two-body problem).  OSU’s enrollment has been growing, and so the faculty is growing with it.  A large, disproportionate portion of the growth has happened among incoming ECE and CS freshman, making our program (which has a fixed number of spots for juniors and seniors) more competitive.

Please spread the word and have your students and colleagues who want to live in paradise apply now.

Another algorithms person at Oregon State? It could be *you*!

Oregon State University is hiring!  In computer science! 4 positions! In algorithms!Climb to Alsea Falls

Okay, sure, they are probably not going to hire 4 algorithms people, but algorithms is in the list of targetted areas:

We seek strong candidates with a commitment to quality teaching and with research strengths in the areas of programming languages, algorithms with a focus on optimization or probabilistic reasoning, systems-focused HCI, databases with a focus on very large data systems (excluding data mining), and computer security and privacy.

Given the wealth of positions, it may be a good match for those with a two-body problem.  Or 4-body problem!  The electrical engineering side of our School of EECS is also hiring for several spots.  And other departments at OSU are hiring too!  Enrolment is up and faculty positions are following.  But, why OSU, you ask?  Well, it’s a super friendly department that really values collaborative work:

Applicants should demonstrate a strong commitment to collaboration with other research groups in the School of EECS, with other departments at Oregon State, and with other universities.

Our machine learning/artificial intelligence group is particularly strong.  Our teaching load is low and the research rate is high.  But, perhaps my favorite reason for being at Oregon State is being in Corvallis and being in Oregon.  If you like trees, beer, wine, fresh fruit, vegetable, meat, friendly people, a mild climate, climbing, biking, hiking, skiing, and a minimum chance of natural disaster, and you want all of that stuff in your back yard, then Corvallis, OR is the place for you.  Did I mention it is beautiful?

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