The Director will work closely with faculty, students, staff, alumni, industry partners, and university leadership to strengthen the Schools national prominence, expand research opportunities, recruit and retain exceptional faculty and students, and cultivate an inclusive and supportive academic environment. Over the last 5 years, the School has experienced remarkable growth in enrollment, faculty recruitment, research funding, and scholarly impact, fostering new opportunities in areas such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and machine learning, bioinformatics, systems and networking, and data science analytics.