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About the Computing and Information Science Department

Kansas State University is committed to the growth and excellence of the CIS department. The department offers a stimulating environment for research and teaching, and has several ongoing collaborative projects involving researchers in different areas of computer science as well as other engineering and science departments. The department has a faculty of nineteen, more than 100 graduate students, and 300 undergraduate students and offers BS, MS, MSE, and PhD degrees. Computing facilities include a large network of servers, workstations and PCs with more than 300 machines and a Beowulf cluster with 100+ processors. The department building has a wireless network and state-of-the-art media-equipped classrooms. The department hosts several laboratories for embedded systems, software analysis, robotics, computational engineering and science, and data-mining. Details of the CIS Department can be found at the URL [www.cis.ksu.edu].

Kansas State University is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks diversity among its employees.


Contact Information Description Posted Date

To apply, email a cover letter, vita, and contact information
for four references to recruiting@cis.ksu.edu.

Or mail hard copy to:

David Schmidt, Chair, Department Head Search Committee
Computing and Information Sciences Dept.
234 Nichols Hall, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
(telephone: 785-532-7912)

Department Head Position

Kansas State University
Department of Computing and Information Sciences
Department Head Position

The Department of Computing and Information Sciences seeks a dynamic individual for its department head. The successful candidate will be a senior scholar/researcher who possesses a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science or in a closely related field, has excellent management abilities, and possesses effective interpersonal skills. The new head is anticipated to be tenured at full professor; candidates from all areas of computing are invited to apply.

The new head will administer teaching, research, scholarship, outreach, and service activities in a diverse and dynamic department consisting of 17 tenure-track faculty and 3 instructors, who lead research programs in bioinformatics and data mining, embedded and distributed systems, programming languages, security, and software engineering. Information about the department can be found at www.cis.ksu.edu.

To apply, email a cover letter, vita, and contact information for four references to recruiting@cis.ksu.edu.

Or mail hard copy to:

David Schmidt, Chair, Department Head Search Committee
Computing and Information Sciences Dept.
234 Nichols Hall, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506
(telephone: 785-532-7912)

Electronic submission (pdf, ps, doc, or txt) is preferred.
Review of applications commences January 1, 2009 and continues until the position is filled.

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER. QUALIFIED WOMEN AND MINORITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY.
Paid for by Kansas State University.

2008/08/22

Department of Computing and Information Sciences - Kansas State University
Address: 234 Nichols Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506
Phone: (785)532-6350; Fax: (785)532-7353; Mailto: webmaster@cis.ksu.edu