The Department of Statistics and Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis has multiple openings for tenure-track positions at all ranks, including applicants for Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor positions, to begin in 2025. Candidates for Assistant Professor should apply here: http://apply.interfolio.com/153209. Candidates for Associate and Full Professor should apply here: http://apply.interfolio.com/153238. A Ph.D. in Statistics or a relevant field in data science is required. The department supports foundational research as well as transdisciplinary research. Candidates with expertise and interests in emerging areas of statistics and data science, including but not limited to machine learning and artificial intelligence, public health, and social data science, are welcome. Duties will include teaching and student mentoring at the undergraduate and the graduate levels, conducting and maintaining a strong research program, and participating in department and university service. Candidates for the rank of Associate or Full Professor should have outstanding teaching, service, and research record commensurate with tenure at that rank. Diversity and inclusion are core values at Washington University, and we seek to create inclusive classrooms and environments in which a diverse array of students can learn and thrive. 

Application materials should include a CV, list of publications, research statement, teaching statement, and three or four letters of recommendation. Applicants are recommended to include copies of past teaching evaluations along with their teaching statements. Applicants and reference letter writers should submit the required material via Interfolio. The department will review applications regularly from October 15, 2024, but applications completed prior to November 15, 2024 will receive full consideration. Consideration after that date will be at the discretion of the department. 

For more information about the Wash U Statistics and Data Science Department, please see our website here: https://sds.wustl.edu/ 

About Washington University in St. Louis

Arts & Sciences’ new Department of Statistics and Data Science will provide the foundation for digital transformation across a range of disciplinary areas, leveraging the emerging opportunities of computational and data science and Washington University’s deep strength in the social sciences. Our outstanding scholars will transform the university intellectual community not only through their own activities and achievements but also through synergistic collaborations with existing faculty and departments across Arts & Sciences, the McKelvey School of Engineering, the School of Medicine, and other schools at the university. The Department values foundational as well as transdisciplinary scholarship, and will focus on using data to offer solutions to some of the most complex global issues.

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