UW CSE Positions Available

Tenure-Track, Research, and Teaching Faculty

Positions in Computer Science & Engineering

The University of Washington's Department of Computer Science & Engineering has one or more open positions in a wide variety of technical areas in both Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and at all professional levels. A moderate teaching load allows time for quality research and close involvement with students. Our space in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering provides opportunities for new projects and initiatives. The Seattle area is particularly attractive given the presence of significant industrial research laboratories as well as a vibrant technology- driven entrepreneurial community that further enhances the intellectual atmosphere. Information about the department can be found on the web at http://www.cs.washington.edu.

We welcome applicants in all research areas in Computer Science and Computer Engineering including both core and inter-disciplinary areas. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) security, machine learning, theory, and systems. We expect candidates to have a strong commitment both to research and to teaching. The department is primarily seeking individuals at the tenure-track Assistant Professor rank; however, under unusual circumstances and commensurate with the qualifications of the individual, appointments may be made at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor. We may also be seeking non-tenured research faculty at Assistant, Associate and Professor levels, postdoctoral researchers (Research Associates) and part-time and full-time annual lecturers and Sr. Lecturers. Applicants for both tenure-track and research positions must have earned a doctorate by the date of appointment; those applying for lecturer positions must have earned at least a Master's degree. Research Associates, Lecturers and Sr. Lecturers will be hired on an annual or multi-annual appointment. All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service.

The University of Washington was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Award for Faculty Career Flexibility in 2006. In addition, the University of Washington is a recipient of a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award to increase the participation of women in academic science and engineering careers. The University of Washington is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. We are building a culturally diverse faculty and encourage applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans.

Applications received by January 31, 2009 will be given priority consideration. Open positions are contingent on funding.

Please apply online on or after November 1, 2008 at http://norfolk.cs.washington.edu/apply with a letter of application, a complete curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests, and the names of four references.

Questions about the application process may be directed to frc at cs.washington.edu

Joint CSE/EE Positions

The University of Washington's Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering have jointly formed a new UW Experimental Computer Engineering Lab (ExCEL). In support of this effort, the College of Engineering has committed to hiring several new faculty over the forthcoming years. All positions will be dual appointments in both departments (with precise percentages as appropriate for the candidate). This year, we have two open positions, and encourage exceptional candidates in computer engineering, at tenure-track Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor, or Research Assistant Professor, Research Associate Professor, or Research Professor to apply. A moderate teaching and service load allows time for quality research and close involvement with students. The CSE and EE departments are co-located on campus, enabling cross department collaborations and initiatives. The Seattle area is particularly attractive given the presence of significant industrial research laboratories, a vibrant technology-driven entrepreneurial community, and spectacular natural beauty. Information about ExCEL can be found at http://www.excel.washington.edu/.

We welcome applications in all computer engineering areas including but not exclusively: atomics scale devices & nanotechnology, implantable and biologically-interfaced devices, synthetic molecular engineering, VLSI, embedded systems, sensor systems, parallel computing, network systems, and technology for the developing world. We expect candidates to have a strong commitment both to research and teaching. ExCEL is seeking individuals at all career levels, with appointments commensurate with the candidateās qualifications and experience. Applicants for both tenure-track and research positions must have earned a PhD by the date of appointment.

Applications received by January 31, 2009 will be given priority consideration. Open positions are contingent on funding.

Please apply online on or after November 1, 2008 at http://www.excel.washington.edu/apply with a letter of application, a complete curriculum vitae, statement of research and teaching interests, and the names of four references.

Questions about the application process may be directed to frc at excel.washington.edu

eScience Institute Positions

With dedicated financial support from the state, the University of Washington has recently established an "eScience Institute." The overall objective of the Institute is to help position the University at the forefront of research both in modern computational science techniques and technologies (sensor networks, data management, data analysis, etc.) and in the fields that depend upon these techniques and technologies. We are searching for a faculty member who has made outstanding contributions to eScience methodology and has advanced the forefront in one of the application domains either through his/her own work or through collaboration with domain scientists. An ideal candidate would be qualified for a joint appointment in a "methodology department" (Applied Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics) and in an "application department" (Astronomy, Biology, Genome Sciences, Oceanography, ...). We anticipate a hire at the tenured level rapidly providing leadership, although assuming the "Directorship" of the eScience Institute is not a necessity.

Please submit your application through the Web site http://escience.washington.edu/apply/. Priority will be given to applications received by 31 January 2008, although the search will continue till the position is filled.

Applicants must have earned a doctorate by the date of appointment. Appointments at the Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor ranks will be considered. All University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research, and service. UW is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. We have a culturally diverse faculty and staff and strongly encourage applications from women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and covered veterans. Position contingent on budgetary approval.

Questions about the application process should be directed to wxs at u.washington.edu.

Our Most Recent Hires

Recent Hires (PDF)

2008:

Michael Ernst, Associate Professor, will join the CSE faculty in January 2009. Previously, he was a tenured professor at MIT. He received his Ph.D. from UW, so his return is a welcome homecoming. Ernstās research aims to make software more reliable, more secure, and easier (and more fun!) to produce. His primary research interests are in software engineering and related areas, including programming languages, type theory, security, program analysis, bug prediction, testing, and verification. Ernstās research combines strong theoretical foundations with realistic experimentation, with an eye to changing the way that software developers work.

Shwetak N. Patel, Assistant Professor, joined the CSE and EE faculty in September 2008. He is part of the UW Experimental Computer Engineering Lab (ExCEL) and the Human-Computer Interaction and Design Group (DUB). Patel received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was a member of the Ubiquitous Computing Research group, served as the assistant director of the Aware Home Research Initiative, and was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His research is in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing with a particular emphasis on developing and applying new low-cost, easy-to-use hardware and software solutions to enable novel activity sensing applications. His past work on camera detection and neutralization received the designation of a Top Technology Idea of the Year from New York Times Magazine in 2005. Shwetak's research has also been the basis of various commercialization efforts.

Georg Seelig, Assistant Professor, will join the CSE and EE faculty in spring 2009. He will be part of the Experimental Computer Engineering Lab (ExCEL), which facilitates broad collaboration between the departments along the computer engineering boundary. Seelig received his Diploma in Physics from the University of Basel in 1999 and his PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Geneva in 2003. For the last few years he has been a postdoc at Caltech working with Erik Winfree and Michael Elowitz. In 2007 he received a Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. Georg is interested in understanding how biological organisms process information using complex biochemical networks and how such networks can be engineered to program cellular behavior. The focus of his research is the identification of systematic design rules for the de novo construction of biological control circuits with DNA and RNA components. His approach integrates the design of molecular circuitry in the test tube and in the cell with the investigation of existing biological pathways like the microRNA pathway. Engineered circuits and circuit elements are being applied to problems in disease diagnostics and therapy.

Emanuel Todorov, Associate Professor, will join us in 2009 in both Computer Science & Engineering and Applied Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT in 1998. Previously, he was a tenured faculty member at UCSD in the Department of Cognitive Science. Todorovās research concerns the real-time control of a complex biomechanical system, such as the human body, which require the generation of thousands of control signals per second. The human ability to accomplish difficult tasks ā in the face of noise, delays, uncertainty, and constantly changing circumstances ā suggests that these control signals are chosen rather intelligently and to a large sense online.

2007:

Luis Ceze, Assistant Professor, graduated in October 2007 from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His main research area is computer architecture. He also investigates programming models and compiler support for new architectures. His thesis work focused on designs to improve the programmability of parallel machines and reduce their hardware complexity. Two years of his graduate studies were supported by an IBM PhD Fellowship.

Mausam, Research Assistant Professor. His research interests are on probabilistic methods in automatic planning. This melds probabilistic and logic-based methods to address the difficult problem of making decisions under uncertainty. He is working in the Turing Center.

2006:

Yoky Matsuoka, Associate Professor, moved here from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University after getting her PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998. Her research area is neurobotics, a new field that lies at the intersection of robotics and computational neuroscience. Her primary goal is to understand, assist, rehabilitate, and enhance the human neuromuscular systems of both healthy and motor-impaired people. She is a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Dave Bacon, Research Assistant Professor. His research interests lie broadly across the field of quantum information science. He focuses on two of the most important challenges facing this field: "how" to build a quantum computer and "what" to do with a quantum computer once it is built.

James Fogarty, Assistant Professor, joined CSE from Carnegie Mellon University. He is broadly interested in human-computer interaction, user interface software and technology, and ubiquitous computing. More specifically his interests are in human-centered approaches to developing, deploying, and evaluating sensor-based interfaces in everyday life.

Tadayoshi (Yoshi) Kohno, Assistant Professor, joined the department in July 2006 from the University of California San Diego. His research interests are in computer security, including applied cryptography, network security, software security, and electronic voting.

Marty Stepp, Lecturer, received his MS in Computer Science at the University of Arizona in 2003. He worked at Microsoft from 2003-04. He taught at the UW Tacoma Institute of Technology from 2004-06. He is co-author of the textbook Building Java Programs, published in February 2007 with CSE Sr. Lecturer Stuart Reges.

2005:

Magdalena Balazinska, Assistant Professor, joined the department in January 2006 and completed her PhD in May 2006. Previously, she received her B.E and M.S. degrees from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal in 2000. Magda's research is broadly in the fields of databases and systems. Her thesis work addressed the problems of fault-tolerant, distributed stream processing, and load-management in federated systems. During her last two years in grad school, Magda was supported by a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship.

Arvind Krishnamurthy, Research Assistant Professor, received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1999 and was on the faculty at Yale from then until 2005 when he joined the UW faculty. His research interests are primarily at the boundary between the theory and practice of distributed systems including: managing overlay networks and distributed hash tables, distributed storage systems that integrate the numerous ad hoc devices around the home, and technologies for the third world.

James R. Lee, Assistant Professor, is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (2005) and is interested in combinatorics, geometry, and analysis, with applications to algorithms and complexity theory. He will join the department in September 2006 after a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

2004:

Stuart Reges, Senior Lecturer, received his Bachelors in Mathematics from Case Western Reserve University in 1979 and his Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1982. He worked for ten years at Stanford as a lecturer and served for much of that time as the coordinator of introductory courses. In 1985 he won Stanford's Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education. In 1986 he won the Distinguished Advisor Award for Stanford's School of Engineering. In 1996 Stuart joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona Stuart, and in 1998 he won the University of Arizona's College of Science Distinguished Teaching Award.

2003:

Dan Grossman, Assistant Professor, received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2003 from Cornell and his Bachelor's degree in 1997 from Rice. His research lies in the area of programming languages, with a particular focus on the use of type systems in the context of practical languages. He has spent summer internships at Bell Labs and Microsoft Research.

James Landay, Associate Professor, received his Bachelor's degree from Berkeley in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon in 1996. He joined the faculty at Berkeley in 1996, was tenured in 2002, and joined UW in 2003. James' research interests lie in human-computer interfaces, including user interface construction systems, sketch-based user interfaces, etc. He received an NSF CAREER award in 1999. He is also serving as the director of the Intel Research Seattle laboratory.

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