Connectionists: Opening for a Head Research Engineer at the Gatsby Unit, UCL

[Maneesh Sahani]

The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at UCL invites applications
for a new position of Head Research Engineer, to establish and lead a
team working at the interface of machine learning and neuroscience.

The Gatsby Unit is a world-leading centre for theoretical neuroscience
and machine learning research, running international PhD and
postdoctoral training programmes. Members of the unit have been
involved in many of the key breakthroughs in machine learning,
statistics and neural data analysis over the past two decades.

We plan to extend our mission by establishing a new group to translate
and adapt novel machine learning and neural data analytic algorithms
and technologies developed in the course of our research into robust,
scalable, open and usable software applications and platforms that
can be used by both our collaborators and a wider audience. The Head
Research Engineer will lead and develop this team.

The team will take the lead in interactions with collaborators in
academia and industry, to understand particular data sets or
applications and to engage and assist with the research and
development needed to adapt algorithms to address these cases. A key
responsibility will be to facilitate practical interaction between the
theoretical and algorithmic work of the Gatsby Unit and the
experimental systems neuroscience carried out in our sister institute,
the Sainsbury-Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour.

A link to UCL's online application site, with further information
about the position, is available from
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/vacancies/

Informal enquiries may be directed to me.

-- 
Maneesh Sahani, Ph.D.
Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning,
Director, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
UCL, 25 Howland Street, London W1T 4JG