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Open Rank Search - Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, and Healthcare Informatics Professor
Position overview
Application Window
Open date: August 10, 2026
Next review date: Thursday, Sep 10, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Wednesday, Jun 30, 2027 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
Position description
The Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing at the University of California, Irvine, invites applications for a faculty position at the rank of Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, and Healthcare Informatics. The successful candidate will direct a graduate program in AI and Health Informatics and play a central role in teaching and leadership within the school's Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, and Healthcare Informatics, and will contribute to the school's research, teaching, and service missions.
The appointee will be an internationally recognized scholar whose work integrates artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital health technologies, and healthcare informatics, with demonstrated impact on clinical care, health systems, and patient outcomes. The position emphasizes graduate education, interdisciplinary research, and translational scholarship at the intersection of nursing, computer science, data science, and engineering.
The faculty member will be expected to maintain a program of scholarly activity appropriate to a professor at a research-intensive university, contribute substantially to both graduate and undergraduate instruction, and provide leadership within the master's program and the broader academic health sciences environment.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Teaching
• Teach and lead graduate-level courses in areas such as artificial intelligence for healthcare, machine learning, digital health analytics, and healthcare informatics.
• Teach undergraduate courses in health informatics, digital health, data literacy for healthcare, or related areas within the school's pre-nursing and health sciences curricula, consistent with programmatic need and the appointee's expertise.
• Supervise and mentor master's students in applied, capstone, and project-based coursework with an emphasis on real-world healthcare applications.
• Support undergraduate student learning through advising, mentorship, and involvement in research or applied projects as appropriate.
• Contribute to curriculum development and ongoing program innovation at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, and Healthcare Informatics and any future undergraduate offerings in health sciences or pre-nursing.
Research and Creative Activity
• Maintain a nationally and internationally visible research program in artificial intelligence, digital health, biomedical or healthcare informatics, or related fields.
• Secure and sustain extramural funding from federal agencies (e.g., NIH, NSF, DARPA), foundations, or industry.
• Publish regularly in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in AI-enabled healthcare and clinical outcomes research.
• Foster interdisciplinary research collaborations across the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, and the Schools of Engineering, Information and Computer Science, Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Population and Public Health, and related units.
Service
• Provide service to the school, campus, and university commensurate with rank.
• Contribute professional service to the discipline through editorial activities, peer review, leadership roles in professional organizations, or conference leadership.
• Support the academic mission of the school and university through shared governance and faculty leadership.
Positions will remain open until filled. Information about the nursing school can be found at SON Website
School: https://nursing.uci.edu/
Qualifications
• PhD or equivalent terminal degree in computer science, engineering, biomedical informatics, nursing/clinical informatics, or a closely related field.
• Record of scholarly achievement at a major research university.
• Demonstrated excellence in teaching or mentoring at the graduate level; experience with or openness to undergraduate instruction is expected.
• Evidence of sustained external research funding and high-impact publication.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and with clinical partners.
• Demonstrated academic leadership experience commensurate with the responsibility of directing a master's program in AI and digital health
Application Requirements
Curriculum Vitae - Your most recently updated C.V.
Cover Letter
Statement of Research
Reflective Teaching and Mentoring Statement - See our guidance for writing a reflective teaching statement.
Teaching Evaluations from last 3 years
Link to Publications
- 3 required (contact information only)
Candidates selected during the initial round of review will be asked to arrange for letters of reference to be submitted electronically later in the search process.
About UC Irvine
The University of California, Irvine is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories covered by the UC anti-discrimination policy.
As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.
- “Misconduct” means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
- UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
- UC Anti-Discrimination Policy for Employees, Students and Third Parties
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APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment.
As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.