UW-Madison's new College of Computing & AI is hiring 50 faculty with $400M backing
lucy3_li · x · 2026-10-22
UW–Madison's Computer Sciences Department is recruiting tenure-track and tenured faculty (assistant/associate/full professor, starting August 2027). The new College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence (CAI) — the university's first new college in 40+ years, merging Computer Sciences, Statistics, and the Information School — is backed by over $400M in philanthropic and institutional investment and expanding by 50 faculty positions.
Scope explicitly includes embodied AI and robotics, ML and supporting systems, and AI for science, engineering, medicine, education, and society.
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