"Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering (RISE AI)"

Job Details

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Job Category: Faculty

Employment Type: Regular

Job Profile: Professor

Job Duties: The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering seeks to hire a faculty member with expertise in foundational AI and machine learning. Desired areas include trustworthy AI foundations: efficient algorithms, optimization theory, and scalable architectures for robust, interpretable, and data-efficient systems. Additional interests span AI in signals, sensing, communications; energy and power systems; and AI-hardware co-design. Outstanding candidates at all levels (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor rank) will be considered.

This position is part of the Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Initiative. Through accelerated and strategic faculty hiring, research infrastructure enhancement, interdisciplinary collaboration, and increased student and educational opportunities, RISE addresses complex societal challenges of importance to the state, nation and world. AI is a field with tremendous possibility for improving the human condition, but it also carries with it a concerning set of risks. It can accelerate the pace of discovery, reflecting a seismic technological shift, but it also requires thoughtful attention to ethics and security. UW–Madison has foundational expertise across research disciplines to address these realities. RISE-AI will advance deep learning and foundation models, natural language processing, signal processing, learning theory, optimization, and related areas. RISE-AI will also ensure AI trustworthiness, mitigate biases, preserve privacy, enhance fairness, help establish AI policy and legal frameworks, and facilitate AI applications to multiple traditional disciplines and promote multidisciplinary collaborations.

Building on UW–Madison’s strengths, RISE expands the University’s successful track record of connecting with communities and industry on collaborative solutions. Over a three-year period, UW–Madison will substantially increase current hiring levels, bringing 150 new RISE faculty to campus.

Candidates hired through RISE will join a community of scholars working across disciplines, schools and colleges on research, teaching and outreach endeavors. The community will engage regularly in venues such as seminar series and colloquia to share ongoing projects and identify opportunities to work together. The University will support the community, facilitating access to research infrastructure, and funding to support broad and rich collaboration. Further information regarding RISE can be found at: https://rise.wisc.edu/

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UW-Madison has a long tradition of excellence in educating, mentoring, and inspiring future leaders; conducting research that is of vital importance to society; and serving Wisconsin, our nation, and the world through professional pursuits. Our 48 tenure-track/tenured faculty (more than 35% of which are women) and 10 instructional faculty are leaders in their fields, respected nationally and internationally for their innovative research and teaching excellence. Approximately 400 graduate students and over 1100 undergraduate students are enrolled in our top-ranked degree programs.

Madison, Wisconsin, a beautiful city of more than 250,000, has been named on top-10 lists for tech growth centers, and consistently ranks as a top community in which to live, work, and play.

Key Job Responsibilities: Teaching undergraduate and graduate courses and contributing to curriculum updates and innovations; mentoring graduate students and supervising their research; developing and directing a successful, extramurally funded research program; participating in departmental and university shared governance; and contributing to professional and public service.

Department: College of Engineering, Department Electrical & Computer Engineering

Compensation: Negotiable – 9 months / ongoing / renewable

Required Qualifications: The successful candidate will have an excellent academic record, a vision for an innovative, significant and impactful research program and the skills to implement it, and a commitment to high-quality undergraduate and graduate instruction and mentoring. Associate and Full Professor candidates must possess experience and scholarly credentials that meet the tenure standards of the UW-Madison Physical Sciences Divisional Committee and the College of Engineering.

Education: Required Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or closely related field by the start date.

How to Apply: Please apply directly to the website by clicking on ".". Upload a single PDF document containing 1) a cover letter, 2) a detailed CV, 3) research and teaching statements describing how the applicant's research and teaching goals fit the solicitation described above and how the candidate's previous activities and future plans are aligned with the department's priorities. Applicants should also provide names and contact information for three references who will be contacted upon application submission. The deadline for assuring full consideration is December 1, 2025. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The position may remain open and applications may be considered until this position is filled.

Deadline: For full consideration, all materials must be received no later than 11:59pm on December 1, 2025. Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

Contact Information: Delight Hensler, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, delight.hensler@wisc.edu

Institutional Statement on Diversity: Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals. The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world. For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion. The University of Wisconsin-Madison is an Equal Opportunity Employer.