We Are Hiring
Join UVA’s newest and fastest-growing school! The UVA School of Data Science is assembling an interdisciplinary and world-class faculty. We are seeking candidates who wish to join us as we pioneer data science methods and applications, innovate data science education, and collaborate on impactful research and solutions to real-world problems.
The School of Data Science values all faculty and strives to foster an equitable workplace environment regardless of faculty track or rank. Regardless of their role, faculty will have the unique opportunity to shape the culture and direction of a new discipline and new school.
Open Positions
Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Data Science in Natural Language Processing
The University of Virginia School of Data Science is seeking exceptional candidates for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with particular emphasis on Large Language Models (LLMs). This search prioritizes faculty making foundational and methodological contributions that improve the understanding or capabilities of language models. We seek a scholar with deep technical expertise in advancing language models, including their architectures, learning objectives, data and training methods, adaptation and post-training, reasoning, evaluation, and efficient implementation. We especially welcome candidates who connect language model research with other areas of data science and with important domains across the University. A successful candidate will join a collaborative faculty community committed to research excellence, innovative teaching, interdisciplinary partnership, and the responsible advancement of data science and AI. Faculty have the opportunity to shape a rapidly evolving field while leveraging the strengths of one of the nation's leading public research universities, with exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and scholarly impact.
Position Type: Full time
Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Professor of Data Science in Data and Society
The University of Virginia School of Data Science is a leader in preparing students, advancing research, and developing the intellectual foundations that underpin the age of artificial intelligence. As data science and AI transform every field of inquiry, the School brings together researchers, educators, and practitioners to address complex problems and generate knowledge with societal impact.
We seek exceptional candidates for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position in the School of Data Science (SDS) within the Data and Society domain, broadly understood to include integrative work across the social sciences, policy, humanities, law, business, and more technical areas of data science. We are especially interested in candidates who work on foundational questions at the intersections of data, society, and AI while addressing complex, real-world challenges.
A successful candidate will join a collaborative faculty community committed to research excellence, innovative teaching, interdisciplinary partnership, and the responsible advancement of data science and AI. Our Data and Society faculty work across SDS domains to identify how data-centric systems and AI are embedded into social organization and to evaluate and respond to their potential impacts and consequences for individuals, communities, and institutions. SDS faculty from various disciplinary backgrounds work closely together to shape a rapidly evolving field while leveraging the strengths of one of the nation's leading public research universities, with exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and scholarly impact. A successful candidate will also benefit from multiple data- and AI-focused centers, initiatives, and efforts across the University, including facilities in Northern Virginia.
Position Type: Full time
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The University of Virginia assists faculty spouses and partners seeking employment in the Greater Charlottesville Area. To learn more, visit the UVA Dual Career Program. The School of Data Science is happy to connect applicants with various resources to help make Charlottesville their home. For more information about faculty opportunities at the School of Data Science, email the Office of Faculty Affairs at sdsfacultyaffairs@virginia.edu.