Open-Rank NLP & Language Modeling Professor (Tenure)

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Virginia School of Data Science seeks exceptional candidates for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with emphasis on Large Language Models.

We welcome researchers who aim to advance language models' architectures, training, evaluation, and efficient implementation, and who connect NLP to broader data science and domain challenges at UVA.

Qualifications

• Foundations, training, and efficiency of language models, including architectures, learning objectives, data curation, pretraining and post-training, scaling, long-context modeling and memory, continual learning, and efficient training and inference.
• Reasoning, knowledge, and agentic AI, including reasoning and planning, tool use, retrieval-augmented and knowledge-grounded generation, symbolic methods, autonomous and multi-agent systems, and human-agent collaboration.
• Multimodal and grounded language intelligence, including vision-language, speech- and audio-language, video-language, cross-modal learning, and world models.
• Multilingual and human-centered NLP, including low-resource methods, language diversity, linguistic and cognitive foundations, dialogue and interactive systems, and accessible and inclusive language technologies.
• Language models integrated with data science and domain discovery, including methods that connect language with structured, temporal, scientific, or multimodal data in areas such as science, engineering, health, education, social sciences, and public policy.

Skills

Foundations of language models

Reasoning & agentic AI

Multimodal language intelligence

Multilingual NLP

Language models & data science

Education

PhD in Data Science, CS, CL, Ling, Info Science, Stats, ECE or related

Job description

The University of Virginia School of Data Science seeks exceptional candidates for an open-rank tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with emphasis on Large Language Models.

We welcome researchers who aim to advance language models' architectures, training, evaluation, and efficient implementation, and who connect NLP to broader data science and domain challenges at UVA.