Connectionists: Researcher position at ATR, Kyoto, Japan

[Yukiyasu Kamitani]

Researcher position at Department of Neuroinformatics (Kamitani group), ATR, Kyoto, Japan

Researcher positions (equivalent to postdocs) are available at Dr. Kamitani’s group of ATR  for research in data-driven neural prediction models for behavior and mental contents.

We aim to build neural prediction models using machine learning based analysis of large-scale behavioral and neural data. Applicants would have opportunities for research combining experiments and computational modeling using functional MRI data in humans (collected at ATR Brain Imaging Center) and ECoG data in humans and monkeys (collaboration with neurosurgeons and neurophysiologists at Osaka Univ., Niigata Univ., and others). Our projects would involve data analysis of natural images/movies/text and behavioral measurements in realistic settings as well as massive neural data. Thus, we are seeking applicants from broad backgrounds including neuroscience, machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. We are also specifically looking for an applicant having the ability of sleep EEG analysis for our sleep project.

The position is one year, renewable. Start date is negotiable. Applicants should send a CV, reprints (pdf) of representative papers, and names of two references to  dni-info at atr.jp.

 
Yukiyasu Kamitani, Ph.D.
ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories
2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City,
Kyoto 619-0288, JAPAN

URL: http://www.cns.atr.jp/dni/