Assistant Professor Position in Artificial - Vancouver, Canada - University of British Columbia

University of British Columbia
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Job Title

Assistant Professor Position in Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Design

Department

Administrative Leadership | School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | Faculty of Applied Science (Ronald Kellett)

Posting End Date

May 15, 2023

Note:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.

Assistant Professor Position in Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Design

Through this opportunity, the constituent Schools and Departments of APSC have come together to recruit a like-minded cluster of new faculty around a shared vision of intellectual and research leadership around a theme of Healthy, Equitable and Adaptable Cities and Communities, within the strategic focus Thriving and Resilient Cities and Communities of the 2021 APSC strategic plan

Transforming Tomorrow

  • APSC intends to create a collaborative, interdisciplinary community of scholars inclined, ready and able to challenge, create, and recreate, knowledge, approaches and methods that contribute to the betterment of future cities and communities.
  • About UBC_
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people.

UBC is a growing tier one research university of over 55,000 students and 5,700 faculty ranked among the top twenty universities in the world and the top three in Canada.

The campus is recognized for its global leadership in planning, design, infrastructure, operations, research, teaching and learning related to sustainability and well-being.

UBC's 2020 strategic plan

Shaping UBC's Next Century

elaborates these themes.

  • About SALA_


The School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) is a close-knit and collaborative academic community of approximately 500 students and 50 faculty and part-time faculty.

SALA offers accredited professional degree programs in architecture and landscape architecture, post-professional graduate programs in research, urban design and high-performance buildings, and a pre-professional undergraduate program in design.

The SALA community is committed to quality design education directed toward the urgent human and environmental issues of our times, and to the integration of the built and natural environment across scales.

These priorities and themes are engaged through academic and research interactions within and across the 'living laboratories' of UBC campus, the Vancouver metropolitan region, and the academic and professional communities of which SALA is a part.

The 2021 QS World University Rankings ranks SALA as the #1 school of architecture and the built environment in Canada.

Additional information about SALA, its academic programs, faculty and community is available at:

  • About APSC_
  • About this position_
  • Research, Teaching and Service Leadership_
  • Qualifications_
All applicants should have a record of research excellence and a commitment to the highest standards of teaching.

In addition, applicants must be able to demonstrate how their research seeks to impact contemporary societal challenges through innovation supportive of collaborative work between and among academic disciplines and / or with non-academic partners.

Strong applicants are likely to be comfortable working with and learning from non-specialists in their field.

  • Equity and diversity_


Equity, diversity and inclusion are essential attributes of academic excellence and SALA is committed to improving its programs, processes and operations toward that end.

This commitment encompasses racial injustice, gender, sexuality, religion, colonialism, and physical and invisible forms of disability within the School and within the professional disciplines to which it contributes.

SALA is guided to this end by UBC's

Inclusion Action Plan

, which operationalizes the themes of inclusion, innovation and collaboration in 'Shaping UBC's Next Century' strategic plan. This Plan articulates UBC's commitments to reconciliation, and recognition of the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of Indigenous peoples upon which the University and its communities are located. These values are amplified by an

Indigenous Strategic Plan

and facilitated by an

Office of Community Engagement Support

  • Application_
  • Cover letter
  • Curriculum vita
  • A 100word summary, suitable for a nonspecialist audience, outlining the nature and purpose of one's research, scholarship or creative practice.
  • A statement of research goals that illustrates how one's research contributes to Healthy Equitable and Adaptable Cities & Communities (max. 2 pages)
  • A statement of one's teaching philosophy and approach (max. 1 page)
  • A selection of teaching work (maximum 20 pages / 5 MB per attachment; 25 MB total). Files can be uploaded in the My Experience section under Application Documents. A total of 5 separate files with a max file size of 5 MB each can
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