The University of Michigan

School of Information           

Tenure Track Positions

The School of Information at the University of Michigan (UMSI) seeks to hire several instructional faculty at all ranks. For additional information and details about additional job openings, please visit our website as indicated below.

We are particularly interested in candidates with research and teaching experience in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI): the design, building and testing of interactive systems, such as physical computational artifacts, mobile applications, online environments, or other kinds of devices or software. Such a candidate will be well-versed in modern design practices and tools, new forms of interaction, evaluation, and/or designing for novel application domains.

We are also very interested and encourage applications from all areas of Digital Curation, including research into methods to assess and improve data quality; the extraction of data provenance for use in analysis; incentives for data sharing and reuse of digital data; ontologies that make it possible to conceptualize, act, and reason about data in a more atomic and structured fashion; and policy, algorithmic, organizational, and practice-based methods to mitigate privacy and security problems with digital data. This new faculty position may provide the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaboration in the context of the University’s recently announced $100M investment in data science.

For all UMSI positions, we favor candidates whose research interests complement our existing expertise in such areas as digital archives and preservation, information seeking, sharing and use; Internet-scale data, network and text analysis; social computing and informatics; computer-supported cooperative work; human-computer interaction; health informatics; and incentive-centered design.

The mission of the School of Information is to create and share knowledge to help people use information -- with technology -- to build a better world. A successful candidate will be committed to, and will directly contribute to our goal of being the best research and teaching institution for the understanding and design of information and its technologies in service of people and society.

The School is home to vibrant research and teaching programs, with 40 FTE professors, and over 600 students. We offer four degrees: a Ph.D., a Master of Science in Information, a Master of Health Informatics (joint with the School of Public Health), and a Bachelor of Science in Information.

Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan has a long and distinguished history as one of the first public universities in the nation. It is one of only two public institutions consistently ranked among the nation's top ten universities. The University has one of the largest health care complexes in the world and one of the best library systems in the United States. With more than $1 billion in research expenditures annually, the University has the second largest research expenditure among all universities in the nation. The University has an annual general fund budget of more than $1.7 billion and an endowment valued at more than $7.6 billion.

 

Qualifications

 

• (Human-Computer Interaction) Ph.D. in an area such as information, computer science, engineering, design, or related fields
• (Digital Curation) Ph.D. in an area such as information science, archival science, computer science, or related fields
• Demonstrated potential for successful teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels
• Demonstrated potential for high scholarly impact
•  A strong commitment to teaching, interdisciplinary research, and cultural diversity

Background Screening

The University of Michigan conducts background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background checks.  Background checks will be performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2015, and continue until the positions are filled.

For more information about each position or for application instructions, please visit:

https://www.si.umich.edu/aboutsi/open-faculty-positions