City College of New York

The Spitzer School of Architecture announces a faculty search as part of the CUNY Martin S. Spergel Initiative in Computational Science supported by the Simons Foundation. Spitzer seeks a colleague, preferably mid-to-senior career who will take a leading role in the interdisciplinary Spergel cluster, Urban AI: Intelligent Systems for Sustainability and Planning in Urban Settings. The field of specialty is artificial intelligence and physical design in the urban built environment, engaging geospatial AI, cyber-physical systems, robotics, or physical AI.

Description: A cutting-edge, imaginative scholar who builds new computational methods, tools, and theories for design, understands AI as a creative force in shaping the built environment, grapples with ethical questions that AI raises, and engages urgent urban challenges, sustainability, climate resilience, and social equity. As a leader of the Urban AI cluster, you will develop its research and pedagogical agendas, and the long-term vision of the initiative in partnership with colleagues at CCNY, Queens College, and the CUNY Graduate Center.

Required qualifications: PhD in architecture, design computation, planning, or closely related field; terminal design degree in architecture or landscape architecture; research agenda applying artificial intelligence or computational methods to design and the urban built environment; a record of teaching undergraduate and graduate design studios, seminars, and/or lecture courses, including AI and computational methods to design students; sustained record of research, publication, and external funding.

Digital application only: Upload a single PDF document that includes a cover letter (3 pages); CV; 2 publications (maximum 50 pages); digital portfolio with syllabi (maximum 10 MB); academic references with contact information.

CUNY offers faculty competitive compensation and benefits package, mentoring, and support for research, scholarship, and publication. The Spergel Initiative provides a substantial startup package to support research including in Spitzer’s state-of-the-art Digital Fabrication and Robotics Lab.

CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are also included among protected groups. Applicants and employees will not be discriminated against based on any legally protected category, including sexual orientation or gender identity. EEO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer. All candidates must be able to work in the United States.