Faculty Positions, AR/VR, University of Maryland

The Department of Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park, is looking for outstanding candidates for tenured/tenure-track faculty at all levels in perceptual computing, including virtual and augmented reality. Follow this link to the official job posting https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/54901 

Our department (http://www.cs.umd.edu), in conjunction with the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (http://umiacs.umd.edu), has established a vibrant tradition of excellence in a number of areas including computer vision, natural language processing, high-performance computing, machine learning, computational biology, robotics, and computational audition. Now, catalyzed by a $38M gift from co-founders of Oculus VR, Brendan Iribe and Michael Antonov, and others, with an additional investment of well over a $100M from the state of Maryland, we are looking to rapidly emerge as the world-wide leader in virtual and augmented reality.  University of Maryland has recently hired several senior faculty in these areas and will continue to grow. The current faculty has close ties with industry and local organizations. More than 50 partner companies and organizations are participating in the soon to be established MAVRIC center, which is focused on immersive media research and development.

 

In addition, we also encourage students to apply to our PhD programs and for postdoc positions in these areas. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland is consistently ranked among the top-15 nationally. It is one of the largest departments in the country, with approximately 50 full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty covering a wide variety of research areas and over 200 doctoral students drawn from top undergraduate programs nationally and internationally.  In 2018 the department is slated to occupy its new state-of-the-art facility, the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation, which is currently under construction.  The University of Maryland, College Park, was founded in 1856 and is the flagship institution in the University System of Maryland.  Its 1,250 acre College Park campus is minutes away from Washington, D.C., the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers.  This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research organizations, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations offers unique opportunities for engagement for faculty and students.