University of Maryland - College Park
Application Deadline: January 27, 2025
The College of Information at the University of Maryland, College Park (the INFO College), invites applications for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position focused in the area of data visualization and visual analytics. The INFO College particularly seeks candidates whose scholarship and teaching interests are centered and focused on one of the following visualization areas:
Data visualization, including accessible data visualizations
Visual analytics
Ubiquitous, immersive, and situated analytics
Benefits and risks of AI for visual analytics
Cognition and visualization, and
Human computer interaction for visual data representations.
We are also seeking candidates whose research and teaching focus on the intersection of visualization and AI, including areas such as:
Explainable AI and interpretability in visual analytics
AI-driven decision support systems in high-stakes settings
Ethics and fairness in AI visualization
Multimodal data visualization combining AI insights (text, image, video data fusion)
Spatiotemporal data visualization for real-time, AI-enhanced analysis
Visualization for machine learning model debugging and interpretability
Candidates working on other topics related to data visualization and visual analytics are also encouraged to apply. Special consideration will be given to candidates with use-inspired research agendas that apply data visualization and/or visual analytics to high-impact areas such as public health, environmental sustainability, digital civics, social justice, urban resilience, and economic development.
The successful candidate will engage in an active program of high-impact research, teach at the undergraduate and graduate level, provide research advising to students at all levels, and engage in service to the profession and shared governance within the University.
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