About the Opportunity
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.
Our locations—in Arlington; Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Miami; New York City; Oakland; Portland, Maine; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant—are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.
Northeastern’s comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs— in a variety of on-campus and online formats—lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.
Northeastern University’s College of Engineering is a globally recognized leader in engineering education and research, distinguished by its interdisciplinary culture, strong industry partnerships, and commitment to translating fundamental discoveries into real-world impact. Located in Boston and supported by a global network of campuses and partners, the College brings together researchers across computer engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, robotics, artificial intelligence, materials, biotechnology, and other emerging fields.
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Northeastern University is a dynamic and rapidly growing academic community at the forefront of research and education in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and emerging computing technologies. The department brings together faculty with expertise spanning computer architecture and systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning, robotics, embedded and cyber-physical systems, communications and networking, signal processing, semiconductor and VLSI design, quantum computing, and emerging hardware technologies.
Located in Boston, within one of the world’s leading technology and innovation ecosystems, Northeastern ECE offers exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration across engineering, computer science, robotics, materials science, and the physical sciences. The department’s research is strongly connected to real-world applications through partnerships with industry, government, and leading research institutions, while Northeastern’s distinctive experiential-learning and cooperative education programs provide students with opportunities to connect classroom learning with cutting-edge engineering practice.
About the Opportunity:
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University is seeking outstanding candidates for Tenure-Track Faculty at the Assistant/Associate/Full Professor levels to strengthen the interdisciplinary thematic area of physical AI, embodied, wearable and assistive AI, described more broadly below. Candidates with expertise in AI, machine learning, multi-modal sensing and learning, computer vision, embodied AI, human-centric AI, explainable and interpretable AI, trustworthy AI, AI on edge devices, physical intelligence, neuro-symbolic AI, AI reasoning are examples of areas that fit this theme.
The university-wide Physical AI, Robotics & Autonomous Systems main theme brings together researchers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the physical world to build systems that sense, reason, and act within real-world environments. This theme spans intelligent infrastructure and adaptive construction and manufacturing systems using digital twins and multi-agent controls; embodied and wearable AI systems that bridge HCI/design with rehabilitation and safe…