Posting Details
Position Information Job Title: Assistant/Associate Professor - Cybersecurity Department: Interdisciplinary Informatics
Essential Functions The successful candidate will contribute to the growth and strategic advancement of the Cybersecurity CYBR program through teaching, research, and service with particular emphasis on enabling externally funded research and interdisciplinary collaboration. Anticipated start date is August 2026.
Essential duties include:
• Teaching undergraduate and graduate cybersecurity courses aligned with program needs, with emphasis on upper-division graduate-level and dual-level 4xxx8xxx courses supporting both BS and MS CYBR students. • Developing and sustaining an active research agenda in cybersecurity or closely related areas. • Seeking and securing external research funding from federal agencies, state partners, foundations, and/or industry. • Supervising and mentoring graduate students, including MS thesis/project students and PhD students in the college-wide doctoral program. • Contributing to curriculum development. • Providing service to the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, the College of Information Science & Technology, the university, and the broader cybersecurity community.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to preventing and eliminating discrimination against employees and prospective employees based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and/or political affiliation. The University of Nebraska at Omaha does not condone or tolerate discrimination. In support of this policy, the University has implemented employment programs to recruit, employ, and promote qualified individuals based solely on their knowledge, skills, abilities, and talents.
Work Schedule M-F, 8-5 Potential for evening and weekend hours
Additional Duties Contributing to strategic growth areas in cybersecurity aligned with the unit and college strategic plans. Contributing to academic designation activities, including supporting the continuation of our existing National Security Agency (NSA) Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) designations in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) and Cyber Operations (CAE-CO) and emerging efforts to become designated in Artificial Intelligence (CAE-AI) and Research (CAE-R).
Required Qualifications Ph.D. in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field by the time of appointment. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with a broad range of academic, industry, and government partners. Record of scholarly activity in cybersecurity, appropriate to rank, evidenced by cited peer-reviewed publications and/or externally funded research. Demonstrated ability to teach cybersecurity courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Experience mentoring graduate students. Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in an interdisciplinary environment.
Additional Required Qualifications at the Associate level: Tenured appointment at an accredited four-year U.S. institution.
Preferred Qualifications: Research agenda aligned with strategic growth areas such as cyber operations, cyber defense, human-centered and usable cybersecurity, cyber risk and resilience, security analytics, and threat intelligence, adversarial and defensive AI, sociotechnical security, or cyber influence and deception. Experience or demonstrated interest in contributing to interdisciplinary research centers, institutes, or unit-college-campus-level strategic initiatives. Experience engaging with government, defense, and/or industry partners in research, education, or workforce development contexts. Demonstrated experience developing or sustaining external partnerships or collaborations.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Regularly sits, may stand, walk, see, hear, speak, and use of hands.
Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Regularly works indoors. Noise level is low to moderate.
Salary Competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience
Posting Detail Information Posting Number: 2026F-00105 Open Date: Close Date: Open Until Filled: Yes Special Instructions to Applicants To learn more and apply online, please visit https://unomaha.peopleadmin.com/postings/24780 and submit the following application materials:
Review of applications will begin on March 2, 2026, and will continue until the position is filled. For questions about the position, please contact Dr. Matt Hale, Director, School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, at mlhale@unomaha.edu.
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Documents Needed To Apply Required Documents: Cover Letter Curriculum Vitae Teaching Statement or Evidence Research Statement Statement of Service and Community Engagement Optional Documents