36.2363, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, University at Buffalo

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Subject: 36.2363, Jobs: Computational Linguistics: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, University at Buffalo

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Date: 06-Aug-2025
From: Jeff Good [jcgood at buffalo.edu]
Subject: Computational Linguistics: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, University at Buffalo

Job Location: Buffalo, NY, USA
Web Address: https://engineering.buffalo.edu/ai-society.html
Job Title: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
Job Rank: Rank Open

Specialty Areas: Computational Linguistics

Description:
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo
(UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant
Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor.
The new AIS department was created with the goal of creating AI
systems that are designed to be built by society, for society. We seek
to upend the dominant approach where AI systems are built with
accuracy as the primary metric and then “fine tuned” for societal
considerations. A successful candidate is expected to contribute to
our initial attempts to make this vision a reality. To that end, we
are looking for candidates who can operate effectively in a team
environment with a diverse community of students and faculty, and who
share and want to help shape our vision for a new department in the
field of AI and Society.
Review of applications will begin immediately with start dates in Fall
2025 and beyond; applications will be considered until all positions
are filled.
The AIS department seeks to hire interdisciplinary scholars whose
research agenda connects the study of AI with humanistic and/or social
scientific line(s) of study and are open to hire scholars with
training in a wide range of home disciplines, including (but not
limited to) Social Work, History, Computer Science, Engineering,
Public Health, Digital Media and Art, Education, Psychology,
Sociology, Geography, Languages and Literatures, etc. We expect a
successful applicant to be a transdisciplinary researcher who
incorporates insights across AI and the arts, humanities and/or one or
more of the social sciences.
We envision successful candidates might include scholars who:
 - Use methodologies, theories, and/or concepts from the arts,
humanities and/or social sciences to develop new kinds of AI (e.g. new
models or new uses of existing models informed by humanistic or social
scientific theory);
 - Use AI to engage social science questions (e.g. computational
social science) or humanistic lines of inquiry (e.g. digital
humanities concerned with social change and justice);
 - Develop community-driven (e.g. participatory-design-based) AI
solutions to address societal problems (e.g. HCI, Human Factors, and
other design scholars specializing in community work);
 - Pursue critical work on AI through a social scientific or
humanistic lens (e.g. critical algorithm studies or critical artistic
work).
These lines of inquiry are by no means exhaustive, but reflect our
belief as a department that 1) we cannot have AI systems that are
built for society without undertaking meaningful analyses of the
strengths and weaknesses of existing AI systems, 2) that AI can, if
used effectively, be an important tool in the social sciences,
humanities, and arts, and 3) that attempts to build “AI for social
good” that do not involve impacted communities from the start of the
design process are doomed to fail. Given that AIS is a new department,
initially, all faculty members are expected to fully engage and
participate in the building of a new department including but not
limited to
 - Developing a vision for the department that encompasses its role in
enhancing training opportunities and engaging communities around
issues related to AI and society,
 - Developing department policies and procedures,
 - Creating undergraduate and graduate programs, including developing
and implementing new courses, in the department.
In the steady state, successful candidates will be expected to teach
courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, mentor graduate
students, advise students at all levels, and maintain an active
research program. The successful Associate Professor or Full Professor
candidates should also have a record of scholarly accomplishments,
teaching experience, and a record of sustained external funding
through grants, fellowships, or foundations. We also expect any
successful candidate to work with faculty and experts from multiple
fields within the AIS department and/or the UB community in general.
About the Department:
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) is the newest department at UB
and reports to both School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS)
as well as the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). The department has
been initially supported by New York State with the goal of being the
epicenter of new foundational education and research at the
intersection of AI and society.
The University at Buffalo (UB) is a flagship of the State University
of New York (SUNY) system, a member of the prestigious American
Association of Universities, is the largest and most comprehensive
university in the SUNY system, with about 21,000 undergraduates 11,000
graduate students, and 2500 full-time faculty. The College of Arts and
Sciences is the home for the liberal arts at UB, with 30 departments,
16 academic programs, and 23 centers and institutes covering the full
range of the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, the Natural
Sciences, and Mathematics. The School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences has about 8,000 students across 10 academic departments.
Funding of $400M was recently announced to launch EmpireAI, located at
UB and supporting the state-wide consortium. The prestigious NSF
National AI Institute for Exceptional Education continues to innovate
in the application of AI to address important problems across
disciplines.

Application Deadline: (Open until filled)
Web Address for Applications:
https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57857
Contact Information:
        Atri Rudra
        Email: atri at buffalo.edu

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