Seeking PhD students interested in fMRI & EEG studies of language/vision

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@purdue.edu

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