The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Computer Science department is hiring a tenure-track faculty position in HPC. Click here for a direct link to the position description.
They have a shiny new lab for teaching and research in parallel computing, along with a fantastic student body that will certainly attract talented people for this position.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is located approximately 200 miles north of Los Angeles and 230 miles south of San Francisco. San Luis Obispo enjoys a mild coastal climate with an average high temperature of 72 degrees.
Position Description
TENURE-TRACK POSITION — HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
The Computer Science Department at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is seeking a full-time, academic year, Computer Engineering/Computer Science at the Assistant or Associate Professor rank beginning no later than 9/15/2016. The selected candidate will have Computer Science as their home department. Rank and salary are commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Duties include teaching undergraduate and master’s level courses, enriching the development of new curricula in high-performance computing and conducting research. Particular areas of focus include: parallel computing architectures, and programming models including massively parallel accelerators, distributed computing systems, scientific computing, computational modeling and visualization. Specific assignments will depend on department needs. Outcomes assessment and Learn by Doing are important components of the university curricula. Faculty members are also expected to engage in service activities at all levels of the university and to provide academic and professional advising to students.
Cal Poly’s Computer Science Department offers Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science and Software Engineering, and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. Also, the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments jointly offer a B.S. degree in Computer Engineering. Cal Poly’s emphasis on Learn by Doing involves extensive lab work and projects in support of theoretical knowledge. The Computer Science Department maintains an array of modern computing facilities and specialized labs for instructional and faculty support. The department has just built a cutting edge Massively Parallel Computing Lab that includes workstations each containing high-end multicore CPUs, an Intel Xeon Phi accelerator, and an NVIDIA GPU. The department has strong connections in the HPC area with multiple companies including Intel, NVIDIA, and Dreamworks Inc., as well as with national labs (LLNL, Sandia National Labs, ORNL). For further information about the department and its programs, please visit www.csc.calpoly.edu.
Click here for a direct link to the position description.
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