Director and Professor of The School of Computing and Informatics in Lafayette, Louisiana For Sale

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) invites applications for the position of Professor and Director of the School of Computing and Informatics. UL Lafayette is a public research university with High Research Activity with accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. The School of Computing and Informatics is a unit within the University's Ray P. Authement College of Sciences.
The University has a long history in computing education, having first offered the Master's degree in computer science in xxxx. The School includes the Computer Science Program, the Informatics Program, and The Center for Advanced Computer Studies. The School offers an ABET/CAC accredited Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a Bachelor's degree in Informatics, Master's degrees in Computer Science and in Computer Engineering, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering. The School has an enrollment of approximately 700 students including over 100 graduate students. It is home to the first student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. Among the 23 full-time faculty members are two IEEE Fellows and four NSF Career Award winners. In recent years, annual new research grants awarded totals $3M+, with an average of $300K per year in externally funded research assistantships. UL Lafayette is the lead institution of the NSF Center for Visual and Decision Informatics. The city of Lafayette has one of the largest publicly-owned fiber-to-the-home networks delivering broadband services to homes and businesses, for over a decade and has attracted employers that have plans to employ well over 1,000 computer science and informatics majors in the near future.
The School is seeking a dynamic leader to leverage the University's commitment and enthusiastic community support to lead the School's academic programs and research capabilities to an international standard of excellence, with the goal of becoming a top-tiered program of Computing and Informatics in the nation.
Qualifications
An earned doctorate in computer science or a related area, combined with a strong track record in doctoral student supervision and developing a successful, externally funded research program;
Possess a broad knowledge of computing and informatics areas as well as having intellectual interests to enable him/her to lead or contribute to multidisciplinary efforts in studies and research;
Strong record of successfully initiating and managing relationships with industrial or governmental agency partners;
Experience and accomplishments in leadership roles, preferably at a research university, in promoting academic quality and vitality, including promoting experiential learning opportunities for students;
Record of entrepreneurial and innovative skills in developing and communicating a vision within an academic environment and implementing the vision in a collaborative, transparent manner;
Excellent communication and relationship building skills and the ability to effectively work with individuals from diverse groups and disciplines and engage both internal and external stakeholders.
The expected start date is August xxxx. Applicants should send complete application packages, including a letter of application, curriculum vitae, short statements of research, teaching, and leadership philosophy, and contact information of five references electronically (as a single pdf file) to Professor Magdy Bayoumi at ( dcmix@cacs.louisiana.edu). To ensure full consideration, receipt of complete application material is required on or before October 31, xxxx.
APPLICATION INFORMATION
Contact: Professor Magdy A. Bayoumi
School of Computing and Informatics
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Email Address: dcmix@cacs.louisiana.edu