[Air-L] Berkeley faculty position in Digital Security, Safety, and Trust (Open rank tenure/tenure-track)

[4etmeyer at gmail.com]

https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04668

 

Dear AoIR colleagues,

 

Please share this open rank tenure-eligible faculty position at the UC
Berkeley School of Information in Digital Security, Safety, and Trust as
widely as possible.

 

Position description (Full details at
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04668)

 

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, invites
applications for appointment to the faculty at the Assistant, Associate, or
Full Professor rank.

 

Digital technologies have extraordinary capacity to improve the quality of
human life, enrich personal and social interactions, boost economic
productivity, solve large scale societal problems from mass transportation
to public health, and more. Over the last decade, however, it has become
clear that the human and social components of the overall systems are
rate-limiting factors in those transformations. What is needed now and for
the foreseeable future is attention to the security, safety, and trust
dimensions that emerge when people interact with digital technologies.

 

We seek applications from scholars who work to address this intersection
directly. An ideal candidate will have some core technical foundation, but
will be working with technology to address other parts of the security,
safety, and trust system that depends on people and institutions as much as
it does on technology. This includes areas like trusted/trustworthy
algorithms and algorithmic decision making. We are looking for scholars
whose work takes into account multicultural environments and issues of
poverty and exclusion on a global basis and assesses trust more broadly than
simply transparency or explainability.

 

Best wishes,

Eric

 

ERIC T. MEYER

Dean & Chancellor's Professor of Social Informatics

School of Information, University of California, Berkeley