Associate Professor - Industrial & Mgmt. Systems Eng

Job Description

The Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering invites applications for one tenured/tenure-track faculty position at the Associate/Assistant Professor levels starting in August 2026. The research and educational interests of the applicants should align with the department's core thrust in developing scalable, trustworthy, and human-centered AI-driven methodologies and solutions leveraging optimization, machine learning, statistical learning, and reinforcement learning. Applicants are expected to apply these approaches to enable intelligent decision-making in complex and smart infrastructure and socio-technical systems, including autonomous systems, cybersecurity, healthcare, sustainable energy, logistics, and public health.

Minimum qualifications include a doctoral degree in industrial engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, or a related field from an accredited research institution. Preferred qualifications include:
1) research expertise in one or more of the above areas;
2) a strong publication record in top-tier peer-reviewed journals/conferences, and, if seeking the associate professor rank, a high citation h-index;
3) significant potential (or demonstrated record for associate level) for securing research grants and contracts from federal agencies and state/private sources as a principal investigator;
4) potential or a demonstrated ability to form multi-level, interdisciplinary research collaborations;
5) a strong potential/record of successfully funding and mentoring doctoral students and/or post-doctoral scholars; and
6) demonstrated experience/potential for developing and teaching undergraduate and graduate courses. Successful candidates are expected to possess strong leadership and communication skills, work effectively in teams, integrate research, education, and service activities, and be actively engaged in professional societies.

The IMSE Department currently has 16 full-time faculty members and offers BSIE, MSIE, and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering, together with an M.S. degree in Engineering Management (MSEM) and an M.S. degree in Data Intelligence (MSDI), and is highly engaged in distance learning. The department currently hosts 266 undergraduates, 125 master's, and 27 full-time doctoral students. IMSE faculty have strong collaborations with other departments within the College of Engineering, the Colleges of AI Cybersecurity and Computing, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, Business, and Arts & Sciences.

The department has strong ties with various centers and institutes such as the Institute of Applied Engineering, Center for Urban Transportation Research, the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Byrd Alzheimer's Institute, USF Sleep Research Center, and with organizations outside of USF such as City of Tampa, Tampa Electric Company, Tampa General Hospital, and James

A. Haley Veterans' Hospital.

Responsibilities

Established in 1964 and currently led by Dean Levi Thompson, the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida is ranked #56 among public institutions (#89 overall) by U.S. News & World Report's 2025 Engineering & Specialties Rankings. The college serves more than 3,700 students, offering nine bachelor's programs as well as 12 master's and eight doctoral degrees. The college is actively engaged in local and global research activities, with $46 million in research expenditure for the fiscal year .

The college has 12 major research centers and institutes and is actively engaged in local and global research activities focused on sustainability, biomedical engineering, computing technology, and transportation.

The University of South Florida is a high-impact global research university dedicated to student success. Over the past ten years, no other public university in the country has risen faster in U.S. News and World Report's national university rankings than USF. Further, USF joined the American Association of Universities (AAU) in 2023. Serving more than 50,000 students on campuses in Tampa, St.

Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee, the Florida Board of Governors designated USF as a Preeminent State Research University, placing it in the most elite category among the state's 12 public universities. USF is a member of the American Athletic Conference. Learn more .edu.

An application package should include a cover letter indicating interest in a specific rank, a complete curriculum vitae with a list of publications and research grants, detailed contact information for four references, a one-page statement of the applicant's research vision, and a one-page teaching statement. The cover letter should be addressed to Dr. Hadi Gard, Search Committee Chair, Industrial and Management Systems Engineering.

Applicants must electronically submit the application packet as one PDF file to the following website: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). . Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the…