Assistant Professor
The Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina, Columbia invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position. This position is part of a college and university-wide initiative to advance data science by using an interdisciplinary approach. Applicants with research expertise in any area of statistics will be considered, as well as those with expertise in modern data science. Appointment for this position will commence on August 16, 2024. Applicants for this position must have a PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, or a closely related field by the start date of employment and must provide evidence of potential to be an outstanding researcher and an excellent teacher.
Review of applications will begin November 20, 2023. We will continue to review applications until the position is filled. E-mail inquiries about the position may be sent to FacultySearch@stat.sc.edu. All applicants must submit an online application through the university’s employment system (USC Jobs) at https://uscjobs.sc.edu. Applicants must include a CV, a cover letter, research and teaching statements, and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent directly by their references to the e-mail address: FacultySearch@stat.sc.edu.
The Department currently consists of twelve tenured/tenure-track faculty and seven full-time instructors. Current research areas of the faculty include survival and reliability analysis, Bayesian statistics, latent variable methods, item response theory and psychometrics, semiparametric and nonparametric inference, group and pooled testing, highly-structured or high-dimensional data, statistical learning, functional data, scalable and post-selection inference, and statistical genetics. The department has about 35 full-time graduate students and offers PhD, MS, and BS degrees. For more information about the university and the department, see www.sc.edu and www.stat.sc.edu, respectively.
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