Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering - Physical AI

College of Engineering/UW Madison; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UW‑Madison seeks faculty members with expertise in physical artificial intelligence, aiming to advance sensing, learning, and safe actuation in the physical world. We invite candidates across all ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor) who can contribute to perception, multimodal sensing, learning, and robotics.

UW‑Madison’s ECE department is renowned for its research and teaching excellence, with a diverse faculty and strong

Job description

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering seeks to hire a faculty member with expertise in physical artificial intelligence, advancing the foundations and technologies that enable intelligent systems to sense, learn, and act reliably/safely in the physical world. Desired areas include perception and multimodal sensing, learning and modeling of physical dynamics, and the foundations of learning, control, and decision-making for robotics and autonomous systems.

Outstanding candidates at all levels (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor rank) will be considered. The ECE Department at UW-Madison has a long tradition of excellence in educating, mentoring, and inspiring future leaders; conducting research that is of vital importance to society; and serving Wisconsin, our nation, and the world. Our 52 tenure-track/tenured faculty (more than 35% of which are women) and 10 instructional faculty are leaders in their fields, respected nationally and internationally for their innovative research and teaching excellence. Approximately 400 graduate students and over 1100 undergraduate students are enrolled in our top-ranked degree programs.