<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Western University has recently made major investments in
building excellence in cognitive and computational neuroscience. The <a href="https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/cbs/index.html" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Computational Brain Sciences
Research Group</a> at the Brain and Mind Institute has become a major hub of
excellence in this area, bringing together an interdisciplinary and highly
collaborative team of researchers, spanning Neuroscience, Computer Science,
Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Mathematics, who seek to uncover how
the brain solves the computational problems that ultimately give rise to
intelligent behavior. Our group is tightly embedded into the strong and vibrant
research community in basic and clinical neuroscience at Western.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">=======================</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">MSc/ PhD Positions:</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We are looking for exceptionally talented and motivated MSc
/ PhD students for the fall 2021 intake. Through BrainsCAN funding, we offer a competitive
<a href="https://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/cores/computational_core/postdoctoral_and_graduate_fellowship_program.html" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">graduate
scholarship program</a> in computational neuroscience. Interested applicants
should contact one or more principal investigators at Western University whose
combined expertise covers the spectrum of computation and neuroscience, and who
can serve as co-advisors on the proposed research project. Projects that
contribute to increasing diversity in neuroscience at Western University are
encouraged. Core members of our research group can be found <a href="https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/cbs/about_us/core_labs.html" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">here</a>.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Please send a single PDF file entitled <LastName>_<FirstName>.pdf
to the principal investigator(s) you hope to work with, containing: </p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span>a CV</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span>a short Research Statement (maximal 2 pages)
outlining your research interest and how it fits with ongoing work in the lab</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span>the name and contact information of 2 academic
references</p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">        
</span></span>please state clearly, which graduate program
(Neuroscience, Computer Science, Statistics, or Applied Mathematics, or other)
you are applying for.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Individual PIs will begin the review of applications on
December, 18^th. Deadline for the graduate scholarship is January 4^th.
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">=====================</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Special Call</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We also offer a special BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellowship which aims <span style="font-size:11pt">to attract the world’s most promising and diverse early-career neuroscientists who self-identify as Black, Indigenous, LGBTQ2S+, people with a disability, and women. More details can be found <a href="https://brainscan.uwo.ca/programs/pdf_special_call/index.html">here</a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">Deadline for the p</span>ostdoctoral   <span style="font-size:11pt">scholarship is January 11</span>^th<span style="font-size:11pt">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">best,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">---------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Boyu Wang</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Assistant Professor</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Department of Computer Science & Brain and Mind Institute</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">University of Western Ontario<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p>

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