Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate or full professor in the Department of Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences. We seek an outstanding researcher to develop a research program at the forefront of statistics, artificial intelligence, experimentation, and health.

AI systems now participate not only in analyzing data but in designing experiments, selecting interventions, and guiding scientific discovery. This shift calls for new statistical foundations, and this opening offers a well-resourced professorship to build a research program that develops these foundations.

We are especially interested in candidates developing statistical methodology for AI-enabled experimentation in health, aging, and related areas. Relevant settings include:

Regulatory frameworks are evolving alongside these developments, including recent FDA guidance on credible, validated applications of AI, model-informed approaches and new experimental methodologies in drug development. Exceptional candidates in other application areas will also be considered.

We welcome candidates whose research develops methodology and theory in a variety of subfields of statistics relevant to AI-enabled experimentation, including:

Indiana University Bloomington offers an unusually rich environment for this research. IU has established major academic-industry partnerships in health and biotechnology, including a five-year $40M partnership with Eli Lilly on AI-enabled clinical trials research, and a five-year master collaboration agreement with Cook Medical. These partnerships are coordinated through the IU Launch Accelerator for Biosciences and complement IU’s clinical and health-science ecosystem, including the IU Medical Center and IU School of Medicine, giving faculty the opportunity to work across the full span from statistical theory and methodology to applied industry collaborations and translation into practice. Located approximately one hour from Indianapolis, Bloomington provides access to one of the nation’s major health and life-sciences hubs.

The successful candidate will join a collegial, research-active department with strengths in Bayesian methods, high-dimensional statistics, computational statistics, physics-informed inference, and biostatistics, and will help shape its direction in AI-enabled and health-oriented statistics. The department is closely tied to the Indiana Statistical Consulting Center, which serves researchers across the university, and has natural collaborators in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, home to the Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence and its focus on AI for digital health, as well as in the Department of Mathematics, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Cognitive Science program, and the School of Public Health-Bloomington.

These 10‐month appointments would ideally start August 1, 2027, although an earlier or later start date is negotiable. Applications received by December 1, 2026, will receive full consideration, and applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.

Responsibilities: Tenured/tenure-track faculty at Indiana University Bloomington are expected to substantially contribute to the overall academic excellence of their department by developing and/or maintaining a robust research portfolio including pursuing and obtaining major extramural research funding to conduct cutting-edge research both as a corresponding principal investigator and a collaborating investigator; teaching and mentoring undergraduate and/or graduate students as designated by the department chairperson; and actively providing service within the department, school and university alongside active engagement with the profession and/or the community.

The position is located on the campus of Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB) in Bloomington, Indiana, and successful candidates are expected to work on the IUB campus to allow full engagement with the department, school, campus, and community. Indiana University bases its tenure and promotion recommendations upon performance in three areas including research, teaching, and service. All individuals hired through this initiative are expected to excel in research and provide strong performance in teaching and service.

Minimum Qualifications: Applicants should possess a PhD in statistics (or a related field) and be committed to excellence in scholarship and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Candidates for w/tenure positions must demonstrate a record of scholarly achievement appropriate for an appointment w/tenure, including extramurally funded research as a corresponding principal investigator, current funding or strong potential to secure external funding, established record of publications and scholarly work, and experience leading sizeable research initiatives.

Application Procedures: Review of applications will begin December 1, 2026 and continue until all positions are filled. Application materials should include:

Applicants for associate or full professor should apply at: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34576

All queries about the position or the application procedures should be addressed to Dr. Nathan Glatt-Holtz, search chairperson, or Dr. Cindy Broderick, search coordinator, at faculty1@iu.edu.

Before a conditional offer of employment with tenure is finalized, candidates will be asked to disclose any pending investigations or previous findings of sexual or professional misconduct. They will also be required to authorize an inquiry by Indiana University Bloomington with all current and former employers along these lines. The relevance of information disclosed or ascertained in the context of this process to a candidate’s eligibility for hire will be evaluated by Indiana University Bloomington on a case-by-case basis. Applicants should be aware, however, that Indiana University Bloomington takes the matters of sexual and professional misconduct very seriously.

Indiana University is an equal opportunity employer and provider of ADA services and prohibits discrimination in hiring.See Indiana University Notice of Non-Discrimination here which includes contact information.

About Indiana University Bloomington: Founded in 1820, Indiana University-Bloomington (IUB) is the flagship campus of Indiana University. Located in Bloomington, IN., IUB constantly strives to embody its mission to create, disseminate, preserve, and apply knowledge. It does so through its commitments to cutting-edge research, scholarship, arts, and creative activity; inspired and challenging undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong educational programs; meaningful experiences outside the classroom; expansive global educational opportunities; first-rate library and museum collections; and far-reaching economic development and impact in the state and region.

IUB is a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU) since 1909, is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association. With over 47,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the campus has 16 degree-granting colleges and schools offering 300+ undergraduate majors, 300+ Master’s degrees, and 150+ doctoral and professional degree opportunities. Known for its Indiana limestone facades and green spaces throughout, IUB is widely considered one of the country’s most beautiful college campuses.

More information about the Department of Statistics at Indiana University Bloomington can be found at www.stat.indiana.edu.

Minimum Qualifications: Applicants should possess a PhD in statistics (or a related field) and be committed to excellence in scholarship and teaching at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Candidates for w/tenure positions must demonstrate a record of scholarly achievement appropriate for an appointment w/tenure, including extramurally funded research as a corresponding principal investigator, current funding or strong potential to secure external funding, established record of publications and scholarly work, and experience leading sizeable research initiatives.

All queries about the position or the application procedures should be addressed to Dr. Nathan Glatt-Holtz, search chairperson, or Dr. Cindy Broderick, search coordinator, at faculty1@iu.edu.