The Di Liberto-Lab at Trinty College Dublin (TCD) is advertising: 1) a fully-funded PhD Studentship for a project in the areas of auditory neuroscience and neural data analysis (start Sept 2022); The position is offered by the SFI Centre for Research Training in Digitally-Enhanced Reality (d-real) Please see below for additional details on each position.

 PhD Studentship

Project title: “When digital feels human: Investigating dialogue naturalness with multivariate neural data”

PI: Giovanni Di Liberto, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science and Statistics, TCD

External Secondary Supervisor: Benjamin Cowan, Associate Professor, School of Information and Communication Studies, UCD

Applications are invited for a fully-funded 4-year PhD student position in the Di Liberto-lab at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland. The student will be part of the d-real training network and will become an expert in research areas at the intersection of Cognitive Science and Computer Science. The project will investigate the brain processes at the foundation of natural speech communication by focusing on dialogue scenarios. The project will be carried out with a combination of behavioural, electroencepalography, and pupillometry data. Please find the full project description here

We are looking for candidates with:

• Strong computational and signal processing skills, or interested in developing such skills
• Strong interest in studying cognition and the human brain and, potentially, a background in cognitive science, neural engineering, or similar area
• (Ideally) Prior experience with speech sound processing
• (Ideally) Expertise in machine learning

Funding will cover EU student fees, stipend, and research costs.