The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, invites applications for multiple named Postdoctoral Fellow positions. Applicants from all research areas relevant to ISyE will be considered.

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Job Responsibilities

Named Postdoctoral Fellows will be expected to perform independent research at the cutting edge of their field in collaboration with a faculty mentor within the school. Candidates will be evaluated on their academic accomplishments; the strength of their research proposal; and their potential for faculty careers that will value diversity of backgrounds and perspectives that are essential to teaching, learning, discovery, and creation, remove barriers to access and success, and building an inclusive community where people of all backgrounds have the opportunity to learn and contribute. The mentor's potential to work productively with the candidate and their commitment to these values will also be considered.

Minimum and Preferred Qualifications

An earned doctorate is required by the start of the appointment. Successful candidates should have a track record or the potential for research accomplishments as well as demonstrated interest in teaching and service.

Application Requirements

Applicants should submit the following materials: (1) letter of application; (2) curriculum vitae; (3) research proposal (up to two pages, not including references and citations); (4) letter from an ISyE faculty member (other than your Ph.D. dissertation advisor if you are currently a student in ISyE) indicating their commitment to serve as your primary mentor; (5) personal statement (up to one page, describing your personal background and your prior contributions and future plans related to the values described in the Job Responsibilities paragraph above); (6) thesis abstract (up to one page); (7) writing sample (sample publication or paper, max. 35 pages not including references and citations); (8) names and contact information for three references. Requests for information may be directed to ISyE’s Associate Chair for Faculty Development, Dr. Pinar Keskinocak (isye-postdocsearch@isye.gatech.edu). Review of applications will begin immediately, but the search will continue until the positions are filled. A background check must be completed prior to beginning employment.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech’s faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation’s top 20 universities for research and development spending and #1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech’s mission and values

Georgia Tech’s mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

About the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

The H. Milton School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is a leading unit within the Georgia Institute of Technology. The faculty of the school lead the discipline and is renowned for its focus on advancing theoretical and methodological frontiers as well as the application of analytical principles to the solution of real-world problems of industrial, societal, and global concern. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in industrial engineering, operations research, analytics, machine learning, and related fields, and its core programs have been ranked #1 in the nation for 23 (undergraduate) and 34 (graduate) consecutive years by U.S. News & World Report.

Information and opportunity requests may be directed to ISyE’s Associate Chair for Faculty Development, Dr. Pinar Keskinocak (isye-postdocsearch@isye.gatech.edu).