Missouri S&T Intelligent Systems Center Director Search

Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) seeks an innovative leader and scholar to serve as Director of the Intelligent Systems Center (ISC). The ISC is a University Research Center comprising more than 30 faculty with approximately $7.5M in annual expenditures. Current ISC members span multiple departments at Missouri S&T who conduct joint research on projects involving secure cyber and physical systems with emphasis on the methods of sensing, control, simulation, and computational intelligence and their application to manufacturing, energy, smart living, and other systems. The ISC Director will lead ISC members toward achieving the Center’s mission to perform basic and applied research to address scientific challenges and technology needs in developing intelligent systems for various industrial and societal applications, with the developed methodologies and technologies applicable to a variety of real-world problems. Specific expectations include: growing the research portfolio of ISC by securing high-impact externally funded, multi-investigator, multi-million-dollar research projects and centers; building strong collaborative relationships with other faculty; building productive relationships with national laboratories, industrial companies, UM System research centers, and other academic institutions; mentoring other ISC members in growing their research portfolio, and managing the ISC resources to achieve these goals. For additional information regarding the position, please refer to Missouri S&T’s career page. 

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The following members agreed to serve on the search committee:

Jonathan Kimball
Chair
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering; Interim Director, Center for Research in Engineering & Environment

Search Committee Members:

• Sajal Das, Professor and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair in Computer Science
• William Fahrenholtz, curator Professor of Ceramic Engineering; Director, Materials Research Center
• Kamal Khayat, Professor; Vernon & Maralee Jones Chair in Civil Engineering
• Suzanna Long, Professor & Department Chair, Engineering Management & Systems Engineering
• Angela Lueking, Associate Dean for Research; Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
• Constantinos Tsatsoulis, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies

Timeline

• Application review: October 31, 2020