Connectionists: Graduate Studies in Computational Neuroscience at Western University

[Jörn Diedrichsen]

GRADUATE STUDIES IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE AT WESTERN

Western University has recently made major investments in building excellence in cognitive and computational neuroscience. The  Computational Brain Sciences Research Group <https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/cbs/index.html> 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.

We are looking for exceptionally talented and motivated MSc / PhD students for the fall 2021 intake. Through BrainsCAN funding, we offer a competitive graduate scholarship program <https://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/cores/computational_core/postdoctoral_and_graduate_fellowship_program.html> 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. 

Among the core faculty are: 
Marieke Mur - Vision, Psychophysics, Neuroimaging
Yalda Mohsenzadeh - Neural Dynamics of human Perception and Memory, Computer Vision 
Lyle Muller - Vision, Memory, Networks
Jörn Diedrichsen - Motor Control and Learning, Analysis of Neural and Neuroimaging data 
Ali Khan - Anatomical and functional imaging analysis, Ultra-high field Neuroimaging pipelines
Boyu Want- Machine learning, Brain Signal analysis, Knowledge transfer in ML 
Andrea Soddu - Resting-state networks, function-structure relationship 
Mark Daley - Neural Computing, Theoretical Computer Science 
More information about the research groups can be found here <https://www.uwo.ca/bmi/cbs/about_us/core_labs.html>:

Please send a single PDF file entitled <LastName>_<FirstName>.pdf to the principal investigator(s) you hope to work with, containing
a CV
a short Research Statement (maximal 2 pages) outlining your research interest and how it fits with ongoing work in the lab(s)
the name and contact information of 2 academic references
please state clearly, which graduate program (Neuroscience, Computer Science, Statistics, or Applied Mathematics, or other) you are applying for.
Individual PIs will begin the review of applications on December, 18th. Deadline for the graduate scholarship is January 4th.

 
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