Research Faculty Hiring
(Tenure Track and Tenured)
School of Information Systems (SIS), Singapore Management University (SMU)
The School of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University hires research faculty with a technology focus (Information Systems Technology) as well as with a management focus (Information Systems Management). We are continuously on the lookout for outstanding faculty candidates at all levels:
- Fresh Ph.D.s
- Postdocs looking for a faculty position
- Ph.D.s who are currently in industry but want to return to faculty and research work
- Mid-career or senior faculty
We strategically hire to build critical mass and innovative capability across five areas:
Faculty in the first four areas have done their Ph.D. work in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or closely related fields, and publish in the computer science and technology communities. Faculty in the fifth area have done their Ph.D. work in the economics of information technology, and/or in empirical methods for quantifying the impact of IT related projects, investments or innovations.
Details on all of our faculty members are given here.
More information on the sub-areas we are working in, and expanding into, are given here. Descriptions of research and project activities within each of our five main areas are given here.
We encompass both deep systems oriented information technology capability, as well as the ability to analyse and predict the business and management aspects associated with IT applications, systems, innovations and transformations. Mixing people from these different backgrounds is a distinctive feature of the school. Faculty with different backgrounds often work together (e.g. collaborations across our technology areas, or between our technology areas and our IS management area).
We prefer faculty who are very strong in one of these five areas (in their particular sub-discipline), and who also work across boundaries - across the boundaries of their sub-discipline within one of these main areas, as well as across the boundaries of two of more of these main areas. We also encourage our SIS faculty to collaborate with faculty from the other five schools at SMU (Business, Accountancy, Economics, Social Sciences and Law).
While we use our five main areas to organise some aspects of our faculty and school administration, we choose not to have departments within the School in order to encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary work.
Currently our school has 40 full time faculty members. About 60 percent are Research Track Faculty. The other 40 percent are full time Education and Practice Track faculty.
The school energetically facilitates working relationships with industry to make it easier for faculty members to obtain background information, real data and examples from private and public sector organisations.
While we encourage and nurture applied research addressing real-world problems, we simultaneously cultivate and value big ideas, and research that is intellectually deep and thought provoking. We want our faculty striving to create research outputs that impact thinking and scholarship in the academic community, as that also leads (or potentially leads) to real-world impact in “the world of business”.
We are quite selective in who we hire, and our benefits and salary are very competitive with comparable U.S. university positions.
Other important points:
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We provide a great deal of career mentoring and guidance to help pre-tenure faculty with their professional development.
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Since 2003, we have had a strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. This allows our faculty to interact very closely with senior research faculty from CMU. More details are available here.
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We believe that our school should be outstanding in both research and education. While research track faculty must be especially strong in their research accomplishments and impact, SMU believes in a “balanced excellence” model for evaluating research-track faculty performance. Naturally, we require all of our research track faculty to have especially strong records of research accomplishment. At the same time, we also require that they take teaching and university & global community service very seriously, and approach these other areas with the best of their ability as well. .
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The Government of Singapore continues to strongly support the country's University system, and provides ample opportunities for research funding support through a numbers of different funding programme led by the various ministries, agencies and R&D programme offices.
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Ph.D. students are supported by the university & school, principally through block post-graduate research funds provided to SMU from Singapore's Ministry of Education.
Please feel welcome to contact us and talk about potential faculty positions.
To send your application, please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and samples of published work, via email to siscv@smu.edu.sg
If you would like to know about any of the particular research areas at our school, you are welcome to email the following area coordinators:
Information Security & Trust: Robert DENG (robertdeng@smu.edu.sg)
Data Management & Analytics: LIM Ee-Peng (eplim@smu.edu.sg)
Software Systems: Rajesh Krishna BALAN (rajesh@smu.edu.sg)
Intelligent Systems & Decisions Analytics: LAU Hoong Chuin (hclau@smu.edu.sg)
Information Systems & Management: Robert KAUFFMAN (rkauffman@smu.edu.sg )
For enquiries, please contact:
SIS Faculty Recruitment
Singapore Management University
School of Information Systems
80 Stamford Road
Singapore 178902
E-mail: siscv@smu.edu.sg
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