Open Rank NLP & Language Models Professor

University-of-Virgini; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Virginia, UVA Provost's Office: School of Data Science, invites applications for an open-rank, tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Natural Language Processing with emphasis on Large Language Models. We seek scholars advancing language model theory, training, evaluation, and cross-domain applications, who can collaborate across data science and university domains.

Applicants must have a PhD by August 2027 and a strong publication record in NLP/AI venues.

Qualifications

• PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Information Science, Statistics, Electrical or Computer Engineering, or closely related field by August 2027 or start date.
• Strong publication record in peer‑reviewed NLP, computational linguistics, and AI venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, TACL, Computational Linguistics).
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary, collaborative research environment and a commitment to teaching excellence.

Responsibilities

• Advance NLP and language model research with foundational and methodological contributions.
• Collaborate with UVA researchers across data science, engineering, and related domains.
• Contribute to teaching and mentoring at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.

Job description

University of Virginia, UVA Provost's Office: School of Data Science, invites applications for an open-rank, tenured or tenure-track faculty position in Natural Language Processing with emphasis on Large Language Models. We seek scholars advancing language model theory, training, evaluation, and cross-domain applications, who can collaborate across data science and university domains.

Applicants must have a PhD by August 2027 and a strong publication record in NLP/AI venues.