The academic home for this position is the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Position Description and Responsibilities:
The Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE) at Cornell University seeks candidates for a tenure-track position aimed at developing a nationally recognized research and teaching program on complex systems engineering at the nexus of food, water, and energy.
This position has a balanced effort between research (50%) and teaching (50%) on a 9-month academic year basis. The successful candidate will provide engineering leadership to interdisciplinary collaborative teams exploring food, water and/or energy systems and their environmental and economic sustainability. We are interested in candidates who have demonstrated expertise in investigating complex biological systems and can work with colleagues in our department and across the university in building an understanding of the tradeoffs and opportunities that may be present at the nexus.
Research: The successful candidate will be responsible for developing a nationally recognized research program in one or more areas of engineering of complex systems such as, but not limited to:
- Developing quantitative, predictive and computational modeling of food-water-energy systems that increase our decision support capability for critical systems;
- Multi-disciplinary and multi-scale (with emphasis on a larger scale) representations of food-water-energy systems with safety and/or security in mind
- Using data, network and computing resources for autonomous reasoning and for synergizing robots and humans to improve efficiency, productivity, and sustainability;
- Real-time, high-resolution forecasting of plant development, yield and pests, energy/water expenditure, and agricultural sustainability using a mixture of structural models, AI, spatial statistics and machine learning;
- Using data and mathematical models for analysis of the ecosystem services of interconnected food, water and/or energy systems in affecting human well-being;
- Exploiting new data streams to advance biological system adaptation, resilience, stress mitigation and pest resistance.
This is one of six positions generated as part of the digital agriculture initiative in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell. This initiative offers exciting opportunities to link digital technologies agriculturally important disciplines. http://www.digitalagriculture.cornell.edu/
The successful candidate will be expected to secure extramural funding to support a research program from sources such as NSF, USDA, DOD, DOE and other related federal sponsors, New York State agricultural research funding sources, and commodity boards. The successful candidate will also be expected to collaborate effectively in transdisciplinary projects with faculty in other departments, including Cornell Cooperative Extension, as appropriate. In addition, departmental, college, and university committee service will be expected.