Connectionists: Postdoc position in neural engineering to design, implement, and test a novel noninvasive neural recording system (CMU, Pittsburgh)

[Marlene Behrmann]

A team of three engineers (Grover, Weldon, Kelly) is seeking an 
interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellow for a 1 year position (extendable, 
depending on fit and progress) to design, implement and experimentally 
test, a high density neural recording system. The ongoing project will 
leverage results obtained by the investigators to disrupt neural 
recording systems as they exist, providing novel solutions to 
long-standing open problems of clinical and neuroscientific relevance. A 
successful candidate will be paid competitively.

The overall team comprises:

* Pulkit Grover (Information theory, signal processing, circuits, CMU 
ECE and CNBC)

* Jeffrey Weldon (circuits, devices, CMU ECE)

* Shawn Kelly (circuits, devices, neural implants, CMU ECE and ICES)

* Marlene Behrmann (neuroscience, CMU Psych and CNBC)

* Michael Tarr (neuroscience, head of psychology, CMU Psych and CNBC)

* Dr. Mark Richardson (Director, Adult Epilepsy and Movement Disorders 
Surgery and Brain Modulation Lab, University of Pittsburgh and CNBC)

The candidate will be expected to interact regularly with the first 
three, and intermittently with the rest, to lead this project.

Preferred skills: System-level design and hardware implementation 
experience is a must. Experience in board design will be helpful. 
Expertise in MATLAB, circuits, neuroengineering/neuroscience, signal 
processing, information theory, devices, is helpful but not necessary.

The team also includes one Ph.D. and six undergraduate students working 
on information theory and circuit design for these systems, and actively 
collaborates with faculty in psychology and neuroscience, and clinicians.

The fellow is expected to focus on system design, implementation, and 
testing. The concepts and implementation developed by our group lay the 
foundation for this project. Within one year, the fellow is expected to:

* Lead design and implementation of an ongoing high-density neural 
recording system project at CMU (using off-the-shelf components), and

* (Collaboratively) experimentally validate it, neuroscientifically and 
clinically.

As such, this is a challenging yet accomplishable postdoctoral position 
providing a unique interdisciplinary opportunity to the applicants. 
Applicants should hold a PhD. Those with a mix of board-design, 
circuits-design, and/or signal processing/optimization/bioengineering 
background, with interest in 
neuroscience/neuroengineering/bioengineering, are especially encouraged 
to apply.

Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, a CV, and the 
names and contact information for 3 researchers who can provide a 
recommendation: pulkit at cmu.edu <mailto:pulkit at cmu.edu>, 
jweldon at andrew.cmu.edu, skkelly at andrew.cmu.edu . For further 
information, please send an email to the three email addresses as well.

The position is available immediately and applications will be 
considered until the position is filled.

-- 
Marlene Behrmann, Ph.D
George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and
Department of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
(412) 268-2790
behrmann at cmu.edu

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