University of Southwestern Louisiana and Southern University

Center for Advanced Computer Studies and Department of Computer Science

The Center for Advanced Computer Studies (CACS) at the University of
Southwestern Louisiana (USL) and the Department of Computer Science at
Southern University-Baton Rouge (Southern) invite applications for two
tenure-track positions at the level of assistant or associate professor in
computer science. These positions are made available through support from
the Louisiana Board of Regents' Joint Faculty Appointments Program (JFAP);
the new faculty members will be designated Louisiana Board of Regents'
EPSCoR assistant/associate professors. Louisiana's JFAP has received strong
support from the National Science Foundation, and has been hailed as having
the potential to become a model program for the Nation. The administrative
plan ensures that both faculty members will enjoy full association with
both partnering institutions. The startup packages will include laboratory
equipment, two years' support for summer salaries, research assistants and
travel costs to professional meetings. USL and Southern are linked to each
other, as well as to other research universities in the state, by the new
Louisiana Audio-Visual Research Network, facilitating distance learning and
remote collaboration.

USL is the largest campus in the University of Louisiana system, and is a
Doctoral-II university. According to the 1995 National Research Council
study, CACS ranks seventh in program effectiveness and faculty quality
among all Ph.D. granting computer science departments in all Doctoral-II
universities. In a report published in the December 1996 issue of the
Communications of the ACM, USL is ranked 35th among all Ph.D.-granting
computer science departments. USL is located in Lafayette, the hub of
French Louisiana, which is known for its Cajun culture. Lafayette is
located about 52 miles west of Baton Rouge, and about 129 miles west of New
Orleans. Southern University is the largest historical black university in
Louisiana, and is located in Baton Rouge, the state capitol. South
Louisiana is renowned for its joie de vivre, which has given it an
international reputation.

We are recruiting two candidates who have Ph.D. degrees in computer science
or in a closely related area by the date of appointment, and who have a
demonstrated commitment to research and teaching. The teaching load is one
course per semester, plus a continuing research seminar. The new faculty
members will primarily be associated with the Media Technology Laboratory
at USL and with the Multimedia Laboratory at Southern. General computing
facilities at CACS include a network of Sun workstations, with Unix as the
primary operating system. Additional facilities are available in the
research laboratories in automated reasoning, computer vision and pattern
recognition, intelligent robotic systems, software research and VLSI
systems.

The broad areas of specialization are in multimedia information retrieval;
multimedia signal processing and data communications; or graphics and data
visualization. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience
in some aspects of complex, distributed software systems research and
development (such as in object-oriented programming, network protocols,
intelligent agents, multimedia indexing, softbot development, networked
database interoperability, communication security or data compression). The
successful candidates are expected to contribute to the lab's goal of
developing into a highly competitive research team that can engage in
comprehensive studies of issues arising in the context of heterogeneous,
networked information sources and can provide practical solutions to large
scale, real-life applications.

Additional information about these positions can be found at
http://extreme.cacs.usl.edu/~cice/jfap.html. Interested individuals can
direct their inquiries to Professor Vijay Raghavan, Center for Advanced
Computer Studies, The University of Southwestern Louisiana, P.O. Box 44330,
Lafayette, LA 70504-4330. Tel. 318-482-6603; fax: 318-482-5791; e-mail:
raghavan@cacs.usl.edu. Or to Professor Erold Hinds, Computer Science
Department, Southern University-Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA 70813-0400.
Tel. 504-771-2060; fax: 504-771-4223; e-mail: ewhinds@aol.com.

Applicants should send a complete vita, samples of publications, three
names and addresses of references and a brief description of research
interests to Professor Raghavan at USL. For full consideration,
applications should be submitted by the closing date of April 15, 997. USL
and Southern University are both EEO/AA employers.