Position Information

**Proposed Faculty Rank** Assistant Professor

**Department** 01508 - Games

**City** Salt Lake City, UT

**Track** Tenure Track

**New Position to Begin** 7/1/2026

**Details**
The Division of Games at the University of Utah invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Games to begin in Fall 2026. We seek a scholar whose primary area of expertise is game analytics: the study and application of computational methods to understand, model, and enhance games and player experiences. Candidates should demonstrate the ability to develop analytic frameworks, methods, or tools that advance game science and enhance game development practice. Potential subareas include, but are not limited to: game data mining, player modeling, user experience design in games, adaptive and personalized gameplay, player engagement, predictive modeling of player behavior, and applications of machine learning and AI to game d...