postdoc in neural modeling of vision and recognition

[Stephen Grossberg]

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
BOSTON UNIVERSITY

A postdoctoral fellow is sought to join the Boston University 
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) and Center for 
Adaptive Systems (CAS), which model how the brain controls behavior, 
and how technology can emulate biological intelligence. The 
fellowship is available immediately for a minimum term of two years. 
The postdoc would help to develop models of biological vision and 
object recognition, as well as to adapt these discoveries to image 
processing applications. Recent research in CNS proposes how the 
laminar architecture of cerebral cortex leads to biological 
intelligence. These models have clarified how bottom-up, top-down, 
and horizontal interactions work together in the visual cortex to 
control development, learning, attention, perceptual grouping, 
stereopsis, and 3-D surface perception. New projects will further 
develop these topics with applications to problems in figure-ground 
perception, recognition learning and categorization, scene 
understanding, and cognitive information processing. The postdoc will 
collaborate with Professors Gail Carpenter and Stephen Grossberg on 
basic research and technology transfer efforts. Candidates should 
have substantial training in developing neural network models of 
biomimetic vision/image processing and/or adaptive pattern 
recognition. CNS and CAS offer excellent opportunities for broadening 
knowledge of biological and technological neural modeling and 
applications, as summarized at http://www.cns.bu.edu. Boston 
University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. 
Please send a curriculum vitae, 3 letters of recommendation, and 
illustrative research articles to: Postdoctoral Search, Room 203, 
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, 677 
Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215.