Open Rank NLP Professor — Language Models & Data Science

University of Virginia; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This search prioritizes foundational and methodological contributions that improve language models, and invites scholars who connect language model research with data science and domain applications.

Qualifications

• PhD in Data Science, CS, Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, Information Science, Statistics, ECE, or related field by Aug 2027 or start date.

Responsibilities

• Develop and teach courses in NLP and data science.
• Lead and publish impactful NLP research in top venues.
• Mentor students and foster interdisciplinary collaboration.

Skills

Foundations of LM

Training & efficiency

Reasoning & agentic AI

Multimodal NLP

Multilingual NLP

Education

PhD in Data Science or related field

Job description

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

This search prioritizes foundational and methodological contributions that improve language models, and invites scholars who connect language model research with data science and domain applications.