BIDMaP and MSE jointly seek new faculty in AI for Materials
The University of California, Berkeley invites applications for an approved faculty position at the non-tenured (tenure-track) Assistant Professor level in the area of AI for Materials. This appointment will start as a 100% Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) appointment, with the appointee joining the Bakar Institute for Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) in the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) as a member, with access to its collaborative resources and postdoctoral program. It is the intention to move to the position to a 50/50 split appointment between MSE and a future interdisciplinary data science unit if/when established in CDSS, with MSE as the home department.
We seek outstanding candidates demonstrating the potential to build a world-class research program that uses and advances AI to enable transformational progress in materials science and engineering. Research may span the development of new AI methods motivated by materials challenges, co-development of emergent AI with materials theory and experimentation, and the deployment of AI to accelerate materials research, discovery and innovation. Application areas are intentionally broad, encompassing the full breadth of materials science—from soft to hard matter and inorganic to organic systems—and all stages of the materials lifecycle, including synthesis, processing, modeling, theory, characterization, fabrication, integration, deployment, and reuse. Candidates are encouraged to pursue interdisciplinary and non-traditional approaches, including autonomous experimentation and data generation, scientific foundation models, language-based methods, multimodal learning, robotics and automation, AI/ML methods for characterization, and techno-economic or lifecycle analysis. The successful candidate will help position Berkeley at the global forefront of both AI and materials innovation while contributing actively to the intellectual communities of MSE and BIDMaP.
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