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Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Applied AI (Atmospheric Science Focus)

Employer
University of Wyoming
Location
University of Wyoming Campus, Laramie, Wyoming
Closing date
Feb 19, 2025
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Discipline
Atmospheric Sciences, Interdisciplinary/Other
Career Level
Early Career (up to 10 years past degree)
Education Level
PhD
Job Type
Full-time
Relocation Cost
Negotiable
Sector Type
Academia

Job Details

 

The University of Wyoming  is dedicated to advancing and expanding its expertise in AI while growing its research enterprise. As part of our AI Strategic Initiative, the School of Computing (SOC) in conjunction with other departments across campus are conducting a multi-department AI Faculty Cluster Hire to recruit exceptional scholars who will join the many faculty members already engaged in cutting-edge AI research and applications. Successful candidates are expected to hold joint appointments between the SOC and a department which focuses on the candidate’s area of specialized research. We are particularly interested in candidates with research expertise and interests to develop and apply novel AI and advanced data science techniques integrated with strategically important research areas .

The Department of Atmospheric Science (https://www.uwyo.edu/atsc/) at the University of Wyoming sits within the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences and is one of the departments encouraging applicants to these positions. Successful applicants will hold a  joint appointment in a vibrant department with a graduate program of 25-30 students and 7 academic faculty. In addition to the academic side of the department, the NSF Lower Atmosphere Observing Facility King Air research platform is hosted by the department and employs a further 15 research scientists, engineers, pilots, and technicians. In 2024 the new NSF Wyoming King Air was christened and in situ and remote sensing instrumentation provides a rich data stream for mining with AI. Departmental observational facilities are complimented by our cooperative agreement with the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center. The University of Wyoming has a dedicated allocation of 1/7 of the computer with priority given to geosciences. Potential applicants can harness this to allow them to explore problems that are typically beyond the resources available to a single PI.

 

We strongly encourage individuals from Atmospheric Science who have used machine learning and AI techniques to advance understanding of the Earth system to apply. A non-exhaustive list of example focus areas include:

  • Enhanced Earth system predictability
  • Weather prediction
  • Remote sensing development and interpretation
  • Model parameterization development
  • In situ data mining
  • Interpretable AI/ML in Earth Science
  • Inversions in Earth Science

Successful candidates will be expected to develop a vibrant research portfolio centered around AI and Atmospheric Science. As part of their research portfolio, they will maintain a graduate student research group of 3 to 5 students, attract external funding, and be expected to publish in high quality peer-reviewed journals. In addition to research enterprise, tenure-track/tenured faculty are expected to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level, typical teaching loads are 1 course per semester for highly research active faculty.

For full consideration, applications should be received by March 2, 2025.

Applications must be submitted through the University of Wyoming applications portal (link below)

 

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The Department of Atmospheric Science (http://www.uwyo.edu/atsc), one of six in the UW College of Engineering and Applied Science, concentrates principally on research and graduate education. We have 9 faculty members, 25 graduate students, and a staff which is relatively large compared to other departments at UW. The origins of the department can be traced to the college's Natural Resources Research Institute in the 1960s, and its transformation to the Department of Atmospheric Science in the early 1970s. We evolved around faculty interest in observations, developing facilities which now include the King Air research aircraft, the Stratospheric Balloon Facility, the Keck Aerosol Laboratory, Elk Mountain Observatory, and most our most recent addition, the Mobile Air Quality Laboratory. Our King Air has been funded as a national facility under a cooperative agreements between UW and NSF since 1988, and our cloud radar was added in 1999 and cloud lidar system in 2010 to that agreement. Since its origins, the department has broadened in its scientific scope with current strengths in cloud and aerosol physics, stratospheric aerosols and gases, boundary layer meteorology, and mesoscale cloud interactions. Our external funding level is about $4M/year, one of the largest on campus.
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