Properly deployed, these tools offer hope for solving complex problems like detecting fraud buried deep in financial systems, reducing human bias in the judicial system, improving emergency response to natural and human-made disasters, enhancing manufacturing, supply chains and transportation systems, and improving human well-being through smart and connected communities.

Recognizing the transformative potential of AI, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo seeks applicants for a multi-departmental faculty core group that will engage collaboratively on a variety of shared problems that can benefit from the application of emerging data science tools.

This unprecedented faculty hiring initiative is part of the Provost's Advancing Top 25: UB Faculty Hiring initiative, in the broader area of Transformational Technology.

Faculty appointments at all three levels (assistant, associate, and full professor) are anticipated, with one hire each in the Departments of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Materials Design and Innovation. The core group will emphasize a new model for multidisciplinary collaboration, both among faculty within this group and with existing colleagues across the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the University at Buffalo. Applicants should have a strong and demonstrated commitment to engagement in collaborative research and education. 

Applicants are asked to clearly identify the home department to which their application should be directed. Preferred areas of expertise within the departments include but are not limited to: