Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Cybersecurity (27-28)

The School of Computing at DePaul University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position. We are particularly seeking candidates with expertise in Cybersecurity.

The School of Computing houses a robust Cybersecurity Center with state-of-the-art facilities including a newly developed Cybersecurity Lab featuring dedicated server infrastructure for advanced security and privacy research multi-user attack/defense hands-on experimentation and extensive AI/ML integration for studying emerging cybersecurity threats. Our cybersecurity program is supported by specialized research labs including the Secure Design Lab and the Actionable Cybersecurity & Accessibility Lab (ACAL) focused on exploring designing and developing human-centered accessible solutions driven towards resilience against any form of deception in cyberspace.

The School of Computing includes over 70 full-time faculty and more than 3600 undergraduate and graduate students. We offer a PhD program 17 masters degrees and 10 bachelors degrees as well as a growing number multidisciplinary CS plus X degrees. The School of Computing is committed to providing a flexible and supportive environment for its faculty promoting a rewarding academic career with a balance between teaching and research. Located in the heart of Chicagos vibrant downtown it offers vast opportunities to forge relationships industry national laboratories universities and other organizations in the Chicago area.

The School of Computing has several centers of excellence including Big Data Cloud Infrastructure and High-Performance Computing; Visual Computing Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics; Web Intelligence and Recommender Systems; Computing Education; Interactive Machine Learning; Cybersecurity and Adversarial Machine Learning; Computational Geometry and Topology; Next Generation Networks; Rehabilitation Robotics; and Intelligent Software Engineering. Over the past decade faculty within the school have secured more than $15M in NSF funding and consistently published in selective conferences.

The culture within the school emphasizes high-impact and high-quality research rather than placing pressure on faculty to secure external funding or publish many papers. Nonetheless the university provides extensive support for external funding as well as a robust internal research grants program including PhD stipends graduate assistantships and course releases.

Applicants should have a PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field.