Open Rank Faculty Positions, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Posted September 8, 2017
Please see the complete announcement here: https://jobs.illinois.edu/faculty-positions/job-details?jobID=85372&job=school-of-information-sciences-open-rank-faculty-f1700094
The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) seeks to hire up to four outstanding full-time faculty members (rank open) to join our dynamic and collegial School. Preference will be given to the following specializations, but strong candidates in any area are encouraged to apply.
- Information retrieval & data analytics–natural language processing, machine learning, and data visualization in application domains such as health, science, and business
- Information, technology & society–legal and regulatory environment; political economy of information; responsible and ethical uses of information in a global context; technology and civic contexts
- Digital youth–understanding, supporting and enhancing the interactions of youth with digital information and technology
- Knowledge organization–information architecture, metadata standards, linked data, cataloging and classification, taxonomy, ontology, indexing, digital asset management, records management
- Cultural heritage informatics–contemporary archival research and practice including digital archives; community archives and archiving; convergence of libraries, archives and museums; digital preservation
- User experience/Human-computer interaction–social computing, crowdsourcing, collective intelligence, social media, computer-supported cooperative work, interaction design, and multi-disciplinary study of the design, use and effects of ICTs