Open Faculty Position Informatics in Biology and Medicine

The University of California, Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science (ICS), is seeking excellent candidates for a tenured or tenure-track position in Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics, or Computational Biology. The Department has a strong presence in this area with 5 full-time faculty in biomedical informatics and many faculty from within the Department and throughout the University with whom they collaborate. The ICS department runs a concentration in Informatics in Biology and Medicine and there are outstanding opportunities for interdiscipinary collaborations at all levels with the School of Biological Sciences, the School of Physical Sciences, the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the College of Medicine at UCI. ICS faculty are also closely affiliated with the new Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics.

Nominally the position is for an Assistant Professor, but exceptional candidates from all ranks are eagerly sought. We are looking for applicants with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or a related field and strong research credentials as evidenced by scholarly publications. Applicants for a senior position must also demonstrate a proven track record in funded research activities.

The ICS Department is organized as an independent campus unit reporting to the Executive Vice Chancellor. It runs the second most popular major at UCI and has designed an undergraduate honors program that attracts the campus' most qualified students. External funding from government and industrial sponsors exceeded $10 million last year. The Department currently has 38 full-time faculty and 200 Ph.D. students involved in various research areas including analysis of algorithms and data structures, artificial intelligence and machine learning, hardware-software co-design, parallel and distributed processing, embedded systems, communication networks, middleware technology, security and cryptography, databases, information retrieval and visualization, computational biology, computer graphics, human computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work, programming languages, software development and advanced software technology. ICS faculty are at the forefront of research in emerging areas of the computer science discipline such as multimedia/embedded computing, internet computing and mobile systems, knowledge-discovery in databases, biomedical informatics, the role of information in computer science, and the social aspects of computing technology. The faculty has effective interdisciplinary ties to colleagues in the arts, biology, cognitive science, engineering, management, medicine, and the social sciences.

Although UCI is a young university, it has attained remarkable stature in the past 3 decades. Two Nobel prizes were recently awarded to UCI faculty. UCI is located three miles from the Pacific Ocean near Newport Beach, approximately forty miles south of Los Angeles. The climate is ideal year-round avoiding extreme temperatures in winters and summers. Irvine is consistently ranked among the safest cities in the U.S. and has an exceptional public school system. The campus is surrounded by high-technology companies that participate in an active affiliates program. Both the campus and the area offer exciting professional and cultural opportunities. Mortgage and housing assistance are available including newly built, for-sale housing located on campus and within short walking distance from the department.

Since ICS is also recruiting applicants in other areas of computer science for additional faculty positions, applications should be accompanied by a cover letter noting that this applicant is for Area E (Bioinformatics or Medical Informatics), thus ensuring correct routing within our bureaucracy. Applicants should send a CV, three sample papers, and contact information for three or four references to recruit@ics.uci.edu with a cc to recruit-E@ics.uci.edu (PDF, postscript, Word, or ASCII). Applicants are requested to ask their references to send letters of evaluation to recruit@ics.uci.edu by January 12, 2001. Those that insist upon sending hard copy may send it to:

ICS Faculty Position E
c/o Peggy Munhall
Department of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425

For more information, prospective applicants are encouraged to contact Pierre Baldi, Chair, ICS Faculty Position E by email at recruit-E@ics.uci.edu.

Application screening will begin immediately upon receipt of curriculum vitae. Maximum consideration will be given to applications received by January 5, 2001.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to excellence through diversity.