University of California Santa Cruz has an opening for a TENURED NLP associate or full professor position. If you are interested in teaching, research and living in Silicon Valley California, you are welcome to apply or contact us. Thanks! Apply link: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01170 <https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01170> Help contact: egregg@ucsc.edu Anticipated start: July 1, 2022, with the academic year beginning in September 2022. APPLICATION WINDOW Open date: October 29th, 2021 Next review date: Friday, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee. Final date: Thursday, Jun 30, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled. POSITION DESCRIPTION The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for a tenured Associate Professor or Full Professor. We seek outstanding applicants with research and teaching expertise in all areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). We are especially interested in candidates who have contributed to one or more application areas of NLP including but not limited to information extraction, dialogue and interactive systems, semantics, syntax, information retrieval and text mining, question answering, language grounding, speech and multimodality, NLP for social goods, and machine translation. The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is part of the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. UC Santa Cruz is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an association of the top research universities in the US. Our school has nationally and internationally known researchers in many areas, including theoretical computer science, programming languages, security, distributed systems, storage systems, computer architectures, machine learning, natural language processing, vision, VLSI, and networking. The Baskin School of Engineering is home to six departments, contributing to the richness of its research. Nestled in a redwood forest above the city of Santa Cruz, our beautiful campus has a long history of embracing groundbreaking interdisciplinary work. Of the ten University of California, UCSC is the nearest to Silicon Valley and has close research ties with the local computer industry. Our proximity to Silicon Valley, and our satellite campus there, afford opportunities and avenues for collaboration with researchers working in the many research and development labs in Silicon Valley, as well as with the other San Francisco Bay Area universities. The faculty member will contribute to the M.S. program in NLP located in the UCSC Silicon Valley Campus in Santa Clara, California and will demonstrate established records in research and publications; university teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level (or closely analogous activities); extramural funding awards (or similar success with garnering support for research endeavors). We also value industrial experience or collaboration. We are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of our academic community through their research, teaching, and service. We welcome candidates who understand the barriers facing women and minorities who are underrepresented in higher education careers (as evidenced by life experiences and educational background), and who have experience in equity and diversity with respect to teaching, mentoring, research, life experiences, or service towards building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment. The primary office for this position is located in Santa Clara, due to the expectation of teaching and mentoring students in this location. Space for PhD students for this position is also located in Santa Clara. Graduate level teaching duties will be mainly at the Santa Clara campus with undergraduate courses to be taught at the Santa Cruz campus. The successful applicant will typically spend multiple days per week in Santa Clara and is also expected to spend, on average, one day per week on the Santa Cruz campus (more days will be required when teaching undergraduate courses on the Santa Cruz campus). The ability for on-demand transportation between Santa Clara and Santa Cruz with or without accommodations is essential. The chosen candidate will be expected to sign a statement representing that they are not the subject of any ongoing investigation or disciplinary proceeding at their current academic institution or place of employment, nor have they in the past ten years been formally disciplined at any academic institution/place of employment. In the event the candidate cannot make this representation, they will be expected to disclose in writing to the hiring Dean the circumstances surrounding any formal discipline that they have received, as well as any current or ongoing investigation or disciplinary process of which they are the subject. (Note that discipline includes a negotiated settlement agreement to resolve a matter related to substantiated misconduct.) Department of Computer Science and Engineering: https://engineering.ucsc.edu/departments/computer-science-and-engineering Associate or Full Professor of Natural Language Processing (JPF01170) QUALIFICATIONS Basic qualifications (required at time of application) A Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) in computer science or a field relevant to the advertised position; demonstrated record of research and publications in computer science; and a demonstrated record of teaching experience. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS Document requirements *Statement of Contributions to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - Statement addressing your understanding of the barriers facing traditionally underrepresented groups and your past and/or future contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion through teaching and professional or public service. Candidates are urged to review guidelines on statements (see https://apo.ucsc.edu/diversity.html) before preparing their application. *Initial screening of applicants will be based on the statement on contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V. Cover Letter - Letter of application that briefly summarizes your qualifications and interest in the position. Statement of Research Statement of Teaching Reference requirements 3-5 required (contact information only) Applicants must provide the names and contact information of their references. The hiring unit will request confidential letters** from the references of those applicants who are under serious consideration. Please note that your references, or dossier service, will submit their confidential letters directly to the UC Recruit System. **All letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. For any reference letter provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service, career center), direct the author to UCSC’s confidentiality statement at http://apo.ucsc.edu/confstm.htm.