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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo welcomes
 applications for two tenure track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with an anticipated start date of June 1, 2023. Note, for exceptional candidates, an appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor
 will be considered.  All applicants must have earned a PhD in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a closely related discipline, by the date of appointment.</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">According to Maclean’s 2022 University Rankings</span></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">,</span></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
 Waterloo is ranked 1</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><sup class="x_x_ContentPasted0">st</sup></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
 in Canada for most innovative University.  Waterloo Engineering is ranked 2</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><sup class="x_x_ContentPasted0">nd</sup></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
 in Canada according to US News Global University Rankings 2021.</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The ECE Department</span></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
 has a long and successful history of applying AI to a range of multidisciplinary problems.</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> ECE is part
 of a vibrant AI research and industrial community that tackles many of the most challenging problems in foundational and applied AI and ML</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i class="x_x_ContentPasted0">
</i></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">including its social, ethical, and policy implications. Foundational areas include probabilistic and causal reasoning, reinforcement learning, anomaly detection, computer vision, and deep
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">We encourage applications from candidates working in the broad area of artificial intelligence on a topic with significant
 engineering applications. </span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Application areas of interest include, but are not limited to, health care
 technologies, autonomous vehicles, energy systems, natural language processing, security, assistive robotics, cognitive and social robotics.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Institutes and facilities, including the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute (Waterloo.AI), the Waterloo Institute
 for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), and RoboHub, provide unique opportunities for collaboration across campus. Waterloo.AI was founded in 2018 and is dedicated to fostering and promoting research in all aspects of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
 Waterloo.</span></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">AI
</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">consists of over 200 professors and their research associates, spanning all six faculties at the University
 of Waterloo and more than 35 departments and schools. </span></span></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Waterloo RoboHub facility brings together over 45 faculty members solving
 problems in advanced robotics, autonomous systems, human-robot interaction, and related fields.</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Successful applicants are expected to be, or to have demonstrated the potential to be, leaders in their research and
 are expected to actively engage in teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level, supervise graduate students and to contribute to the overall development of the Department.</span></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)" lang="EN-US">Interested candidates should submit the following: a cover letter, a current curriculum vitae, a research
 statement, a statement of teaching philosophy and goals, two to four selected publications, and the names of three references to
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)" lang="EN-US">Applications will be considered upon receipt, with full consideration assured for those received by
</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)" lang="EN-US"><b class="x_x_ContentPasted0">January 1, 2023.</b></span></span><span class="x_x_eop"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Waterloo has a generous, inventor-owned IP policy and is encouraging entrepreneurial activities of their students and
 Faculty. The Toronto-Waterloo Region Corridor has been recognized as one of the world’s premier locations to start a company. In 2021, $7.7 billion went to start ups in Toronto and Waterloo. Toronto-Waterloo is Canada’s leading start up ecosystem, ranking
 number 17 globally, according to Startup Genome’s 2022 Global Startup Ecosystem Report. Multiculturalism is one key to the region’s ongoing success as a hub for innovation, driven by Canada’s social-democratic values and attracting talent from around the world.
 The region has seen a flourishing of new companies working in AI, cybersecurity, fintech, healthtech and sustainability.</span></span><span class="x_x_eop"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)" lang="EN-US">Waterloo Region is a great place to work and live, being a mid-sized community located in the heart of southwestern
 Ontario's green belt, having all the amenities of a large urban centre. Waterloo Region attracts some of the best and brightest talent from around the world.</span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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 exceptionally qualified candidates, a higher annual salary will be considered. The successful candidate will be required to have an engineering license for practice in Canada or must be able to apply for an engineering license or limited engineering license
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)" lang="EN-US">The department currently has more than 95 faculty members and is one of the largest engineering departments
 in Canada. Our graduates are highly sought out all around the world for their exceptional technical training and abilities. The University of Waterloo excels at experiential learning via the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program. For
 the past two decades, the University of Waterloo has been recognized in a national reputation survey of universities as 'best overall', 'most innovative', and producing 'leaders of tomorrow'. A recent survey of business leaders ranked Waterloo Engineering
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<span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)" lang="EN-US">The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of
 the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our
 campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Indigenous Initiatives Office (</span></span><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/human-rights-equity-inclusion/indigenousinitiatives). " data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_x_ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)">https://uwaterloo.ca/human-rights-equity-inclusion/indigenousinitiatives)</span><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i>.</i></span></a><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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 regards equity and diversity as an integral part of academic excellence and is committed to accessibility for all employees. The University of Waterloo seeks applicants who embrace our values of equity, anti-racism and inclusion.  As such, we encourage applications
 from candidates who have been historically disadvantaged and marginalized, including applicants who identify as Indigenous peoples (e.g., First Nations, Métis, Inuit/Inuk), Black, racialized, people with disabilities, women and/or 2SLGBTQ+.</span></span><span class="x_x_normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></span></span></p>
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 or workplace accommodation requests, or if you have any questions regarding the position, the application process, assessment process, or eligibility, please contact the recruitment committee via Brenda McQuarrie at
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