Open Faculty Positions

 

Open Search for Information Science / Information Technology for Fall 2024

The Informatics Department seeks outstanding candidates with a Ph.D. in a computing, information science, or computing-related discipline or near completion. Informatics has an open search for several tenure-track positions in different areas of Information Science, Information Technology, Human Computing, and Data Science. The areas of interest include, but are not restricted to:

  • Human-computer interfaces
  • Data science and data mining
  • Cybersecurity​​
  • ​Networking
  • Social media and network analytics
  • Visual computing and graphics
  • Creative computing
  • Cloud administration

Outstanding candidates in other information science and computational areas will also be considered.

Work Environment and Advantages

Top 1% of Faculty Pay among 1,292 Public Universities
NJIT offers competitive salaries for Faculty, new labs, and facilities. Incoming tenure-track Faculty begin with a teaching load of only 1/1, supporting a highly productive research agenda.

NJIT Within Metro New York Technology Environment
NJIT’s main campus is located less than 25 minutes from Manhattan. NJIT is within the greater New York infotech corridor with projects, collaborations, or students in Google, Facebook, IBM, Verizon, Audible, Panasonic, and many tech start-ups. Faculty at NJIT can enjoy the urban lifestyle of the New York City area or the open space of rural New Jersey.

NJIT has recently expanded its graduate programs to Jersey City, just across the Hudson River from the financial district of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The instructional staff of the Department of Informatics will be expected to teach at this site as needed.

Research ranked University: Growth and Advancing Reputation
NJIT is expanding rapidly in different areas. NJIT was the 3rd fastest growing university in the US News & World Report rankings, jumping ahead of 50 universities. It was recently ranked in the top 100 national research universities.

Growth is also spurred by a bold expansion of university construction and facilities ongoing and planned. Incoming 2021 faculty will be part of 140 new recent faculty positions at NJIT.

University Heights: Newark’s Academic Hill
NJIT is located in the university heights area, an academic mecca with more than 50,000 college students across five universities and colleges. NJIT and Rutgers are side-by-side sister campuses with shared programs, classes, and research projects.

Largest College of Computing on the East Coast of the USA
The Ying Wu College of Computing (YWCC) is the largest college of computing in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and one the largest in the United States. YWCC graduates the commanding number of computing graduates in the area. As a result, 25% of all high-tech employees in New Jersey trained at NJIT.

Research Support
YWCC is a dynamic research college with innovative projects funded by NSF, NIH, DARPA, and partner companies such as Oculus, Verizon, and others.

Apply for a tenure-track position @NJIT

Apply online or at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25676 to our Informatics job posting. For additional information and inquires: