TUAssistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for Materials Design (tenure-track)
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Build an independent, funded AI/ML materials-design research program and teach chemistry courses at Tufts.
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Why it is interesting. Ties into the Tufts Institute for AI and the Epsilon Materials Institute, with a focus on AI-driven materials design.
Core polymer roleChemistry dept tenure-track search: AI/ML "to advance design, synthesis, or evaluation of novel materials"; teaching Materials Chemistry
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Role details
The
Department of Chemistry at Tufts University
invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) for Materials Design .
The Chemistry Department at Tufts is a highly-active (R1) research community that values excellence in both education and scholarship, along with collaborative and interdisciplinary research. This position will contribute to the department’s expanding strengths in AI/ML and materials research, in alignment with efforts across the broader University, including the Tufts Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Tufts Epsilon Materials Institute.
For this position, the central research focus should be the development and/or use of AI/ML-based techniques and computational methods to advance design, synthesis, or evaluation of novel materials for applications in energy, biomedicine, or other critical fields. Candidates should demonstrate the potential to establish a productive, independent, and extramurally funded research program.
Teaching responsibilities will include undergraduate and graduate courses in chemistry related to the candidate’s research, particularly in Computational Chemistry, AI/ML, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry or Physical Chemistry.
More information about the department can be found at http://chem.tufts.edu
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