UNC CS opens tenure-track hires in AI Safety and Neuroengineering, review starts Dec 1
mohitban47 · x · 2026-10-14
UNC Chapel Hill's Computer Science department announced multiple faculty openings as part of campus cluster hires:
- Two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions: one in "Safeguarding AI in Health" (safe and reliable AI for healthcare, jointly with Statistics & Operations Research and Biostatistics), one in Neuroengineering
- One Full Professor position in "Safeguarding AI for Health," jointly appointed with Biostatistics
- Additional positions across the clusters, including AI Safety and Neuroengineering
The AI Safety emphasis is broad: ML theory, AI systems, interpretability, robustness, verification, and human-AI interaction. Review begins December 1; positions start on or after July 1, 2027.
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