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Alumni Services People Faculty Postdoctoral Students Administrative Board of Trustees External Advisory Committee Highlights Faculty Alumni Postdoctoral Alumni Student Alumni Hiring Tenure-track Faculty Research Faculty Visiting Faculty Senior Faculty Postdoctoral Scholars Visiting Student/Intern Staff Community & Outreach A Research Assistant Professor (RAP) at TTIC is a fixed-term, non-tenure track faculty
position. It is fully funded by the Institute, and focuses on research. TTIC RAPs are independent, eligible to be PIs or co-PIs on grants, have no compulsory teaching duties, and are able to co-advise students, serve on thesis committees, and host summer interns if they wish. The position is intended to help researchers in the beginning of their careers to build strong portfolios of research and to prepare for more
senior/permanent research positions in academia and industry, but without the overhead and stress often associated with junior faculty positions. TTIC seeks RAPs working on any topics relevant to the Institute’s core areas, covering the spectrum from application domains (such as robotics, vision, computational biology, speech, language, and graphics) to theoretical areas (such as algorithms, information theory, and
learning theory). RAPs interact with faculty, postdocs, and PhD students at TTIC and also have ample opportunity to work with colleagues at the University of Chicago. The RAP position is in many ways “the best of both worlds,” combining the research-focused, distraction-free nature of postdoctoral positions with the independence, flexibility and status of faculty positions. It is intended, and has been used by many
past RAPs, as a launching pad for permanent tenure-track and industrial research positions. Institutional Support RAPs are provided an academic-year salary (as is standard for faculty of all ranks in the US), and may also supplement their salary with grant funding or visiting arrangements in academia or industry. In addition, RAPs get an initial computing budget and have access to substantial shared computational
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