Tenure-Track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor Faculty Position, AI Agents

Weill Cornell Medicine; New York (NY); On-site; USD 165,000 - 403,000; Full time

Job summary

Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor within the Division of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Population Health Sciences. The appointee will contribute to AI and health informatics research, teaching, and collaboration with major NYC institutions.

The successful candidate will focus on AI agents for healthcare, evaluation, safety, human–AI

Qualifications

• Developing and sustaining extramural funding.
• Mentoring students, post-docs, and junior faculty.
• Curriculum development and teaching.
• Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and industry partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Develop and sustain extramural funding.
• Mentor students, post-docs, and junior faculty.
• Curriculum development and teaching.
• Foster interdisciplinary collaboration and industry partnerships.

Skills

Research funding

Mentoring

Curriculum design

Teaching

Interdisciplinary collab

Communication skills

Education

PhD or MD/PhD

Job description

Tenure-Track Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor Faculty Position, AI Agents

Division of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence

Department of Population Health Sciences

Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City

https://phs.weill.cornell.edu/

The Division of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence with the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) in New York City is seeking a tenure-track faculty member at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor.

The Division of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence is a multi-disciplinary research division with expertise in artificial intelligence/machine learning, mobile and digital health, patient-reported outcomes, clinical imaging, and natural language processing.

The Division is interested in adding faculty with research expertise and training in areas including but not limited to:

1. AI agents and multi-agent systems for healthcare and medicine, including but reasoning, planning, tool use, workflow orchestration, and multimodal agentic AI.
2. Evaluation, safety, trustworthiness, and human–AI collaboration for healthcare AI agents, including robustness, reproducibility, governance, and human oversight.
3. Clinical and translational applications of agentic AI, including clinical decision support, biomedical research, healthcare operations, and integration with real-world clinical systems.

The faculty member would join an outstanding and collaborative department, and will be appointed in the Division of Health Informatics and Artificial Intelligence which is a multi-disciplinary research division with expertise in artificial intelligence/machine learning, mobile and digital health, patient-reported outcomes, clinical imaging, and natural language processing. Faculty in this division have multiple opportunities for collaboration with clinical researchers at WCM, as well as partner institutions New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Cornell Tech, which is Cornell’s NYC-based engineering campus.

The Departmentof Population Health Scienceshas significant data resources includingbut not limited to:1) the EHR from theINSIGHT Clinical Research Network, a unique collaboration of more than 20New York City-areamedical institutions and organizations funded by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI); 2)PCORnet-RECOVEREHR,a collaborationamongclinical research networks, including INSIGHT,thatrepresents 41 institutions across the nationand is funded as part of theNIH Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative; and 3)Inovalon, which is a national, multi-payer claims database that includes ~226 million unique individuals across Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and commercial plans, with data sourced directly from more than 160 payers.We alsoestablishedthe newWCM Data Coordination Center where we will host data from largeamountsof clinical trials and make innovations.In addition,we have access to thestate-of-the-art computing environmentsat WCM and Cornell University,such as theScientific Computing Unit (SCU), where data is served to users via a Mellanox HDRInfinibandnetwork infrastructure with uplinks at 200GBs. Its analytical systems include 128 graphics processing units (GPUs) using a variety ofNVIDIAP100, V100 and A100 and A40 cards along with 3424 total traditional CPUs.Weare an active member of theNew York State Empire AI consortium, where our faculty have access to the 144 H100 GPUs in its current “Alpha” machine. The computing power will be tripled in its “Beta” version that will be released later this year.

The successful applicant will have a Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D., or equivalent in health informatics, biomedical informatics, computer science, information science or a related field. The applicant will have a record of significant research accomplishments, including developing and sustaining extramural funding, and will demonstrate a strong ability to mentor students, post-doctoral researchers, and junior faculty members. The successful candidate will also have experience in curriculum development, teaching, and scholarship activities in health informatics and AI. The candidate should have strong communication skills, an established record of interdisciplinary work, and be ready to foster collaborative opportunities in research, education, service, and innovation, including engaging with industry partners and entrepreneurship. The successful candidate will also have an opportunity to become a member of the newly established WCM Institute of AI for digital health (AIDH) and work closely with other members in the institute.

Salary established below per annum commensurate with qualifications and experience:

Assistant Professor: $165,000-$199,000

Associate Professor: $205,798-$266,017

Professor: $266,017-$403,283

Weill Cornell Medicine provides the abovesalary rangein compliance with the New York City law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range listed is for fulltime employment not including bonuses, clinical incentive compensation, or benefits. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors including but not limited to internal equity, specialty, training, and hospital/community needs.

The above salary range forNew York City based rolesrepresents WCM’s good faith and reasonable estimate of possible compensation at the time of posting.

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