Founding Director, Data Science Institute Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland On August 3, 2023, Johns Hopkins University (“Hopkins” or “JHU”) announced an extraordinary investment in data science and AI. The University will house the investment in the Whiting School of Engineering (the “School”) and seeks an inaugural Director of a new Institute focused on data science, AI, and their applications (the “Institute”) to match the scale of its ambitions. For the last 14 years, throughout two strategic plans, Johns Hopkins has dramatically expanded its faculty and research capacities, adding 428 endowed faculty chairs, which included more than 50 Bloomberg Distinguished Professors. In the last fiscal year, the University expended $3.18 billion in federally sponsored research, roughly double that of any other research university. It allies its strategic plans to formidable philanthropy, raising more than $6 billion for “Ten by Twenty,” ten initiatives which concluded in 2020. Furthermore, JHU is gearing up for even more substantial philanthropic endeavors, with sufficient donations already com- mitted for its current strategic plan, “Ten for One.” The Institute is the realization of one of the ten goals identified in the “Ten for One” strategic plan: to create the leading academic hub for data science and artificial intelligence, to drive research and teaching in every corner of the university, and to magnify its impact in every corner of the world. Hopkins believes that a great university must have equally great engineering and must have a distinguished and consequentially large AI, data science, and machine learning capacity. In the last decade, with strong leadership and University investment, the Whiting School of Engineering grew its tenure-stream faculty by 54%, from 150 to 240, while nearly doubling sponsored research to $212 million, moving its standing from 27th to 14th in the country. With this investment in the new Institute the Whiting School will accelerate its trajectory and add 80 new faculty in three departments—Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Electrical and Computer Engineering—doubling each over five years. A number of these appointments will be joint recruits with the renowned Applied Physics Laboratory, the nation’s largest university-affiliated research center, which has for decades conducted leading-edge research in data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to help the U.S. address critical challenges. In the same period, the Whiting School will add 40 more faculty members in other departments in the areas of Bioengineering, Energy and Environment. AI figures prominently in each department’s plans. In the next five years, The Whiting School will create the physical infrastructure capacity and the scale re- quired for an initiative of this dimension. The School plans not only to amass deep expertise in the data science and AI domains but also to hardwire these core capabilities to disciplines throughout the university. The School and the University have created the Institute to engage every part of Johns Hopkins. The University comprises nine schools and the Applied Physics Laboratory. The School of Medicine and its health system are ranked among the best nationally and globally. The School of Public Health is both the largest in the country and ranked first routinely. The APL is an essential advanced university affiliated research institute, with over 6000 engineers and $1.9 billion in re- search serving as a technical resource for the Department of Defense. The Kreiger School of Arts and Sciences, the Nursing School, the Education School, the School of Advanced International Studies, the Carey Business School, and the Peabody Institute, are all distinguished and prominent in their fields, aided by substantial investments in the last ten years. The University believes that forging strong interdisciplinary links between a dramatically expanded core of data scientists and the entire university will exert a truly revolutionary impact on the quality of our research and education and contribute trusted, data-driven resources and information for the benefit of society. Accordingly, the university will recruit 30 new Bloomberg Distinguished Professors in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, who will hold dual appointments across schools in the University. The Institute will be housed in a new, unusually expansive and state-of-the-art facility, constructed across two buildings, on the Homewood campus that will be custom-built to leverage a significant investment in cutting-edge computational resources, advanced technologies, and technical expertise that will speed the translation of ideas into innovations. The flagship buildings will allow institute researchers as well as others from across the university to take advantage of the creative energy generated by collaborative colocation and chance encounters with colleagues. The buildings will be home to the most sophisticated wet and dry laboratory space to allow for frictionless translation of ideas into investigation and discovery. Work is already under- way to also expand the university’s capabilities in computing resources to create the capacity and the scale required for an initiative of this dimension. Hopkins intends the Institute to join AI and Data Science, propel discovery and innovation and create the capacity for rich domain knowledge at an unrivalled scale, combining world-leading, large units that are heavily data dependent with a massive increase in computing sophistication and power. To harness these extraordinary investments, the creation of a data science and translation institute will be supported through institutional funds and philanthropic contributions that are fully secured already. The Director will work to realize the Institute, working across the engineering school and university broadly and lifting the university to new heights on research excellence and translational impact. The ideal candidate will be an exceptional leader who brings a strong record of research excellence, successful experience managing people, projects, and processes across fields and disciplines, an ability to create and implement programs to grow cutting-edge research, and the requisite interpersonal and communication skills to represent the Institute externally and to secure additional resources. John Isaacson is leading the search with Karen McPhedran and Ibaad Nazeer.Johns Hopkins University is committed to recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students. As such, Johns Hopkins does not discriminate on the basis of sex, gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristic in any student program or activity administered by the university or with regard to admission or employment. APPLY NOMINATE contact Ibaad Nazeer Full Description