Associate or Assistant Professor- School of Computing
Location:
CURI Charleston
Open Date:
Dec 10, 2018
Description:
Applications and nominations are sought for a faculty position in the School of Computing. The position is targeted for the Zucker Family Graduate Education Center in Charleston, South Carolina. Scope includes rank of tenured or tenure track Associate or Assistant Professor. Senior applicants are expected to have a nationally recognized record of outstanding scholarship. The ideal candidate will have teaching and research interests in power grid cyber and physical security. Applicants with a strong background in energy analytics, IT-OT, and load and resource forecasting will also be considered. The person filling the position may also hold a joint appointment position with the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson.
The School of Computing includes 31 tenured/tenure-track faculty, 6 lecturers, and 750+ undergraduate and 250+ graduate students. The School offers BA and BS degrees in Computer Science, BS in Computer Information Science, MFA in Digital Production Arts, MS and PhD in Computer Science, MS and PhD in Biomedical Data Science and Informatics and PhD in Human-Centered Computing. The Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is one of the largest and most active departments at Clemson, with over 40 faculty members, approximately 550 undergraduates and 190 graduate students.
The Zucker Family Graduate Education Center is Clemson’s Charleston innovation campus. It houses a $98M power facility initiated in 2009 from a $45M Department of Energy grant. The facility includes the SCE&G Energy Innovation Center which contains the world’s most-advanced wind-turbine drivetrain testing facility capable of full-scale highly accelerated mechanical and electrical testing of advanced drivetrain systems for wind turbines. The SCE&G Energy Innovation Center also houses the Duke Energy Electrical Grid Research Innovation and Development (eGRID) Center, a facility with real-time simulation and 20MVA hardware-in-the-loop capability. More Charleston campus information is available at http://www.clemson.edu/restoration/.
Clemson University is a doctoral granting R1 research, land-grant institution for the State of South Carolina enrolling approximately 18,000 undergraduates and 4,800 graduate students with 5,000 ethnic minorities and 1,500 international students. Five interdisciplinary colleges house strong programs in architecture, engineering, science, agriculture, business, social sciences, arts and education. A faculty of 1,400 and staff of 3,500 support 84 undergraduate degree offerings, 73 master’s degree programs and 40 Ph.D. programs. An annual operating budget of approximately $956 million, and an endowment of $623, million fund programs and operations. The University has externally funded research expenditures of $100 million per year. Research and economic development activities are enhanced by public-private partnerships at 3 innovation campuses and 6 research and education centers located throughout South Carolina. Clemson University is ranked as a top 25 national public university by U.S. News & World Report.
Qualifications:
Applicants must have an earned doctorate in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.
Application Instructions:
Applicants should submit a current curriculum vita and names of three references with full contact information via Interfolio. To ensure full consideration, applicants must apply by May 31, 2019; however, the search will remain open until the position is filled.