Recruitment/Posting Title Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Tenure-Track/Tenured Department Engn - Elec & Computer Engn Salary Commensurate With Experience Posting Summary The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the School of Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey seeks to fill multiple full-time, academic year, tenure-track/tenured faculty positions starting in Fall 2023. The preferred rank is at the Assistant Professor level, however, applications at higher ranks will be considered for applicants with exceptional records.
Successful candidates must have a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering or a related field by the employment start date and have excellent verbal and written communication skills. A successful candidate is expected to develop and lead an internationally recognized and externally funded research program, and work in a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment and engage in existing and future large collaborative research endeavors; and write and communicate effectively in the English language. Candidates will be expected to teach courses in electrical and computer engineering at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and to adopt innovative educational practices as they develop and teach department classes.
Diversity and inclusion are a key foundational element of the University’s Strategic Plan and the School of Engineering is fully committed to building a faculty of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Diversity may include, but is not limited to, race, ethnicity, gender and gender identity, age, religion, language, disability status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and geographic region. Because broad attention to diversity is essential to an inclusive climate and critical to the University’s goals of achieving excellence in all areas, we will holistically assess the many qualifications of each applicant and favorably consider an individual’s record working with students and colleagues with broadly diverse perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds in educational, research or other work activities. Applicants who can contribute to this diversity through their teaching, research, or service are particularly encouraged to apply.


Hiring areas for this search are:(i) machine learning/AI targeting applications including but not limited to computer vision, speech and language processing, cyber-physical systems security, wireless systems, control systems, fair and explainable AI, ML/AI for cybersecurity, ML/AI for health and/or biological sciences, ML/AI for physical sciences, and adversarial AI.
(ii) radio technology and wireless systems, including mmWave, THz communications, massive MIMO, full-duplex, software-defined radio (SDR), 5G/6G physical layer, or dynamic spectrum access, network architecture and protocols, including use of research testbeds and/or development of new technology prototypes based on programmable network platforms or software-defined networking (SDN), and networking or cross-layer aspects of emerging mobility related application areas such as vehicular (V2X), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality or healthcare IoT (Internet of Things), high-performance and reconfigurable computing platform design (e.g., FPGA, GPU) for large-scale real-time wireless systems. (iii) Semiconductor devices and electronics in compounds (GaAs, GaN, InP, etc) and/or silicon, photonics, optics and optoelectronics for 5G/6G and beyond . High-speed electronic devices, circuits, and semiconductor lasers for wireless and optical fiber communication and/or sensing. Emerging semiconductor heterogeneous integration and interconnection for system-in-package (SiP).
ECE at Rutgers is ranked third in the United States in terms of number of undergraduate degrees granted according to recent ASEE data. ECE is home to world class research programs in wireless networking, information theory, signal processing, machine learning, high performance computing, computer vision, socially cognizant robotics, cyber-physical systems and nano/bio electronics. Faculty honors include membership in the National Academies, 13 IEEE Fellows, 1 AAAS Fellow, 1 NAI Fellow, 1 PFF Award, 15 NSF Career Awards, 3 DARPA Faculty Fellows, 1 ONR YIP, 1 ARO YIP.
Excellent facilities are available for collaborative research opportunities with local industry through the School’s nationally recognized centers such as the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB), the Micro-nanofabrication and Characterization Facility, and the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT). There also exist collaboration opportunities with clinicians at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Position Status Full Time Posting Number 22FA1271 Posting Open Date 11/03/2022 Posting Close Date