Academic Teaching Staff Lecturer (Data Science)

While this position welcomes applications from individuals external to the university current Academic Teaching Staff are first notified of available positions and will receive first consideration in accordance with the terms of the Academic Teaching Staff Agreement before considering external candidates for positions with a term 8 months or longer. Please login to verify your internal candidate status.

This position is a three-year term appointment commencing in July 2026 and ending on June 30 2029.

Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton.

Position Summary

The Department of Computing Science invites applications for a full-time Academic Teaching Staff (ATS) member. Currently the list of courses the ATS member may be required to teach (all or part of) includes:

CMPUT 191 - Introduction to Data Science
CMPUT 195 - Introduction to Principles and Techniques of Data Science
CMPUT 200 - Responsible Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
CMPUT 291 - Introduction to File and Database Management
CMPUT 393 - Scalable Data-Intensive Analytics
INT D 491 - Data Science Capstone

Information on the courses above can be found in this catalogue:
CMPUT courses
INT D courses

For context about these courses see also the information about the
Certificate in Applied Data Science
. in Data Science

Other courses and related duties may be considered as conditions change and depending on the qualifications of the candidate.

The ATS member has duties to support teaching more broadly which may include course and program design and development the integration of generative artificial intelligence within courses and the support of instructors in alternative forms of delivery (e.g. online asynchronous courses).

The appointment requires a Ph.D. degree in a closely related discipline to computing science software engineering or data science.

Successful teaching experience especially in the context of team-based capstone-project courses that apply data science and use modern cloud technologies is an asset.

Application Instructions

If you are interested in being considered for this position please provide a C.V. and a cover letter that highlights your teaching experience addressing the support duties and listing the courses for which you would like to be considered.

Please include the names of two references who are willing to give information on your teaching experience and abilities.

Questions about the above should be sent to a using Lecturer Position (Data Science) as the subject.

This position offers a comprehensivebenefits package. Salary will be commensurate with experience in accordance withSchedule Dof the Collective Agreement between the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta and the Association of the Academic Staff of the University of Alberta.