MIT launches two shared faculty searches in AI and scientific discovery amid 50-position expansion
ProfBuehlerMIT · x · 2026-10-14
MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing, together with the Chemistry and Biology departments, has launched two shared faculty searches targeting candidates who develop and apply frontier computational approaches to advance biology and chemistry.
The searches are part of a broader plan to add 50 new faculty positions — 25 within the College and 25 shared with other departments — to strengthen MIT's academic capacity in computing and AI.
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