Open Rank, Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Position in AI-Enabled Experiments for Scientific Discovery in Health

Posting Details

Position Details

Title

Open Rank, Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty Position in AI-Enabled
Experiments for Scientific Discovery in Health

Appointment Status

Tenure

Department

IU Bloomington Vice Provost For Faculty Affairs

Location

Bloomington

Position Summary

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:

• autonomous and AI-guided experimentation
• adaptive and innovative clinical trials
• precision medicine
• self-driving laboratories
• digital twins and in-silico experimentation
• AI-enabled drug discovery.

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:

• experimental design, clinical trial design, and sequential

experimentation

• Bayesian optimization and active learning
• contextual bandits, reinforcement learning and online

experimentation

• causal inference and treatment-effect heterogeneity
• statistical learning and machine learning
• evaluation and monitoring of AI systems
• micro-randomized trials
• uncertainty quantification
• prediction-powered inference.

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:

• Cover letter (maximum of 3 pages in length, identifying your

application for a position with tenure (associate/full professor)
or a tenure-track position (assistant professor), and summarize
your interest in the position.

• Current Curriculum Vitae
• Research Statement (maximum of 4 pages in length)
• Teaching Statement (maximum of 2 pages in length)
• Contact information for three professional references
• Professional references for applicants for tenure-track

positions will only be solicited for those selected for a
screening interview.

• Professional references for applicants for positions with

tenure will only be solicited for those selected for a finalist
interview and/or job offer.

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 ( negh@iu.edu ), 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.

Basic Qualifications

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.

Department Contact for Questions

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

Additional Qualifications

Salary and Rank

Commensurate with experience

Special Instructions

For Best Consideration Date

12/01/2026

Expected Start Date

Posting Number

IU-101717-2026