Job Description

Position: Faculty Position in Computational Biology
Location: Mississippi State University

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (https://www.cse.msstate.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level in the area of computational biology. Candidates for the position are expected to hold a Ph.D. in computer science, computational biology, or a closely related field (ABDs may be considered). The person filling this position will be affiliated with the MSU Institute for Digital Biology (IDB), a university-level multi-disciplinary research institute that merges MSU's strengths in engineering and biology to solve problems related to health, nutrition, biofuels, food safety, bio-security and agriculture. IDB faculty are currently funded by NSF, USDA, DOD, NIH, and DOE. MSU has a state-of-the art facility for genomics and proteomics (the Life Science and Biotechnology Institute). Research areas within the department include high performance computing, artificial intelligence, graphics and visualization, computer security, and software engineering.

Mississippi State University is the largest university in the State of Mississippi with approximately 1000 faculty and 17,000 students. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering has 18 tenured and tenure-track faculty and offers academic programs leading to the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, and a B.S. in Software Engineering. The department offers a certificate in Computational Biology and jointly administers the B.S. in Computer Engineering. Faculty also direct Ph.D. students in Computational Engineering and Computer Engineering and work with a number of additional on-campus research centers including the High Performance Computing Collaboratory, the Institute for Neurocognitive Science and Technology, and the Sustainable Energy Center. Seven faculty members in the department have been recognized by NSF CAREER awards. Department research expenditures total around three million dollars per year. Mississippi State University is ranked 48th among 271 U.S. institutions in R&D; expenditures in engineering by the National Science Foundation.

Please provide a letter of application, a curriculum vita, research and teaching statements, and names and contact information of at least three professional references. Application materials should be submitted online at https://www.jobs.msstate.edu/, or emailed to office AT cse.msstate.edu. Screening of candidates will begin February 28, 2008 and will continue until the position is filled. Mississippi State University is an AA/EOE institution. Qualified minorities, women, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.