CMU-Africa seeks highly qualified candidates with a strong academic background, demonstrated research excellence, and a passion for the digital transformation of Africa. Successful candidates will contribute to CMU-Africa's innovative, interdisciplinary graduate teaching and research. Core faculty will form an interdisciplinary team dedicated to generating knowledge and innovations that accelerate Africa's digital transformation. They will also provide intellectual leadership for knowledge transfer activities, including workshops, seminars, and stakeholder engagements in relevant areas.

We welcome applicants with interests in the development and application of information and communications technology to address societal challenges in an African setting. Areas of particular interest include artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity and privacy, software engineering and development, computer and semiconductor technologies, robotics, IoT, technology policy, and technology entrepreneurship with applications to health, finance, agriculture, energy, and education.

Special faculty are integrated into all CMU-Africa activities and receive significant support to achieve scholarly excellence. They are expected to actively collaborate with other faculty at CMU-Africa, the Pittsburgh campus, and partner African universities in their scholarly activities.

About CMU-Africa

Carnegie Mellon University, a world leader in information technology, engineering, and artificial intelligence, started its graduate programs on the ground in Kigali, Rwanda in 2012, with the goal of educating the next generation of technology leaders in Africa. With strong support from the Government of Rwanda, the Mastercard Foundation, Smart Africa, the Mandela Institute for Developmental Studies (MINDS) and other partners, CMU-Africa has grown to more than 300 full-time resident graduate students from 22 countries in Africa, with plans to grow to over 400 students in two years. CMU-Africa graduates are having significant positive impact and rising quickly to technology leadership positions to take advantage of Africa's unique opportunities. CMU-Africa is on a strong positive trajectory, having moved into a new building in 2019 as the anchor tenant of the Kigali Innovation City and doubling its size in the past two years.

CMU-Africa offers three master's degree programs: Information Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering Artificial Intelligence. The location has about 25 faculty members dedicated to teaching, research and entrepreneurship activities. Some examples of current research projects include culturally sensitive robotics for Africa, using machine learning to detect cardiovascular diseases and to identify and classify malaria parasites in blood smears, and building secure and interoperable digital identity systems.

Building on CMU-Africa's significant growth and success in its first decade, CMU-Africa is starting an ambitious, well-resourced program to develop a network of African higher learning institutions that will work collaboratively in education, knowledge creation and technology entrepreneurship with the goal of supporting inclusive digital transformation throughout Africa.

Qualifications:

We seek individuals who hold a Graduate Degree in a relevant discipline and have demonstrated dedication to our core values: scientific truth, creativity, quality, innovation, and engineering problem solving.

CMU-Africa seeks highly qualified candidates with a strong academic background, demonstrated research excellence, and a passion for the digital transformation of Africa. Successful candidates will contribute to CMU-Africa's innovative, interdisciplinary graduate teaching and research. Core faculty will form an interdisciplinary team dedicated to generating knowledge and innovations that accelerate Africa's digital transformation. They will also provide intellectual leadership for knowledge transfer activities, including workshops, seminars, and stakeholder engagements in relevant areas.

We welcome applicants with interests in the development and application of information and communications technology to address societal challenges in an African setting. Areas of particular interest include artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity and privacy, software engineering and development, computer and semiconductor technologies, robotics, IoT, technology policy, and technology entrepreneurship with applications to health, finance, agriculture, energy, and education.

Special faculty are integrated into all CMU-Africa activities and receive significant support to achieve scholarly excellence. They are expected to actively collaborate with other faculty at CMU-Africa, the Pittsburgh campus, and partner African universities in their scholarly activities.

About CMU-Africa

Carnegie Mellon University, a world leader in information technology, engineering, and artificial intelligence, started its graduate programs on the ground in Kigali, Rwanda in 2012, with the goal of educating the next generation of technology leaders in Africa. With strong support from the Government of Rwanda, the Mastercard Foundation, Smart Africa, the Mandela Institute for Developmental Studies (MINDS) and other partners, CMU-Africa has grown to more than 300 full-time resident graduate students from 22 countries in Africa, with plans to grow to over 400 students in two years. CMU-Africa graduates are having significant positive impact and rising quickly to technology leadership positions to take advantage of Africa's unique opportunities. CMU-Africa is on a strong positive trajectory, having moved into a new building in 2019 as the anchor tenant of the Kigali Innovation City and doubling its size in the past two years.

CMU-Africa offers three master's degree programs: Information Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Engineering Artificial Intelligence. The location has about 25 faculty members dedicated to teaching, research and entrepreneurship activities. Some examples of current research projects include culturally sensitive robotics for Africa, using machine learning to detect cardiovascular diseases and to identify and classify malaria parasites in blood smears, and building secure and interoperable digital identity systems.

Building on CMU-Africa's significant growth and success in its first decade, CMU-Africa is starting an ambitious, well-resourced program to develop a network of African higher learning institutions that will work collaboratively in education, knowledge creation and technology entrepreneurship with the goal of supporting inclusive digital transformation throughout Africa.

Qualifications:

We seek individuals who hold a Graduate Degree in a relevant discipline and have demonstrated dedication to our core values: scientific truth, creativity, quality, innovation, and engineering problem solving.