Connectionists: seeking PhD students interested in fMRI & EEG studies of language/vision

[Jeffrey Mark Siskind]

I am looking to recruit several PhD students to work on neuroimaging studies
of the vision-language interface.  The studies will involve designing and
conducting fMRI and EEG experiments with image, video, text, and speech
stimuli and designing and implementing novel machine-learning methods for data
analysis.  Candidates should have either a strong neuroscience or computer
science/engineering undergraduate degree.  If the former, you should have
strong math and programming skills and be able to design and implement new
machine-learning models.  If the latter, you should ideally have prior
experience designing and conducting experiments experiments in the natural
sciences and have a strong desire to learn how to conduct neuroimaging
experiments.  I seek primarily to hire students who wish to pursue an academic
career in computational neuroscience.  The expectation is that students will
publish results throughout their PhD studies.  The RAships will be in the
Purdue School of Electrical and Computer Engineering so candidates must meet
the acceptance standards and have the background to be able to fulfill the PhD
program requirements.  Potential applicants should send a letter of interest
to me including a cover letter, CV, transcripts, and GRE scores.  The cover
letter should describe your neuroscience and or computer science/engineering
background and qualifications, career goals, and what you would like to
accomplish during your PhD studies.  A letter of interest would be
strengthened by including a brief description of any prior research you
conducted along with references to any published work. While there is no hard
deadline for the letter of intent, it will need to be followed up with a
formal application due 15 December 2020. I intend to review letters of intent
on a rolling basis until mid November and give suitable candidates feedback
prior to mid November to guide the formal application process.

Send materials to: Jeffrey Mark Siskind qobi at purdue.edu

    Jeff (http: //engineering.purdue.edu/~qobi)