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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Several positions are now available at the Swartz Center, UCSD and at ARL Aberdeen, Maryland in a large collaborative project on cognitive monitoring using concurrent EEG, behavioral, and environmental data. Please forward this message to qualified potential applicants.</font></span></p>
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</font></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Contact Scott Makeig (</font></span><a href="mailto:smakeig@ucsd.edu" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">smakeig@ucsd.edu</font></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">)</font></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: justify; "><b><font color="blue">Mobile Brain/body Imaging laboratory manager</font></b>: A senior scientific research associate will work with faculty researchers to develop and supervise two innovative, spatially adjacent laboratories for conducting new experiments in Mobile Brain/body Imaging (MoBI) combining concurrent high-density EEG, body motion capture, eye tracking, scene recording, and psychophysiology measurements. The lab manager will develop hardware and facilities plans with PIs and experimenters, will coordinate purchase and integration of equipment and software, manage lab scheduling, archiving and preprocessing of the data, and will supervise laboratory technicians who schedule and conduct experiments and maintain laboratory supplies.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: justify; "><b><font color="blue">Postdoctoral researchers </font></b>: Four postdoctoral positions are now available at the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience under a basic research project, "Cognition and Neuroergonomics," to develop neurocognitive monitoring based on simultaneous high-density EEG, body motion capture, eye tracking, and psychophysiological data recording and analysis for and with the Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Maryland.</p>
<blockquote style="font-family: Times; "><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: justify; "><b><font color="#dd4444">1. Statistical analysis of multimodal brain/body imaging data. </font></b>This researcher will work with Scott Makeig and a multi-disciplinary team of Swartz Center, UCSD, and other university and ARL researchers to develop, implement, and apply <b>methods to fuse and mine multimodal mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) data for information about arousal, distribution of attention, evaluation of events, motivation, and behavioral intent</b> of operators working in information-rich, enclosed control environments. Methods to be employed include sparse and complete independent component analysis (ICA), related non-stationary factor analysis, and distributional data modeling. Requirements include a PhD in mathematics, statistics, signal processing, or related field with a concentration in modeling and statistical signal processing and machine learning / data mining methods.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: justify; "><b><font color="#dd4444">2. Brain dynamics supporting active vision. </font></b>This researcher will work with Scott Makeig and a multi-disciplinary team of Swartz Center, UCSD, other university and ARL researchers to develop, implement, and apply methods for fusing task, sensory, and eye tracking information with simultaneously recorded EEG and body motion capture data to <b>better describe the macroscopic EEG brain dynamics supporting active vision</b>, with a goal of developing basic principles underlying use of concurrent EEG and eye tracking data for monitoring operators working in information-rich, enclosed control environments. Requirements include a PhD in cognitive science, biomedical engineering, or related field with a concentration or significant experience in modeling, signal processing, and statistical data mining methods.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: justify; "><b><font color="#dd4444">3. Brain dynamics supporting motivated behavior. </font></b>This researcher will work with Scott Makeig and a multi-disciplinary team of Swartz Center, UCSD, and other university and ARL researchers to develop, implement, and apply methods for fusing task, sensory, body motion capture, and electromyographic (EMG) data with concurrent eye tracking, psychophysiological and high-density EEG to <b>better model the task-motivated motor behavior of operators and the macroscopic EEG brain dynamics supporting that behavior</b>, with a goal of developing basic principles underlying use of concurrent EEG and body motion data for monitoring the cognition of operators working in information-rich, enclosed control environments. Requirements include a PhD in biomechanics, biomedical engineering, neuroscience, or related field with a concentration or in depth experience in modeling and statistical signal processing and machine learning methods.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: justify; "><b><font color="#dd4444">4. EEG brain dynamics supporting active cognition. </font></b>This researcher will work with Scott Makeig and a multi-disciplinary team of Swartz Center, UCSD, and other university and ARL researchers to develop, implement, and apply methods for fusing task, sensory, and high-density EEG information with simultaneously recorded eye tracking and body motion capture data to <b>better describe the non-stationary distributed EEG brain dynamics supporting task performance</b>, with a goal of developing basic principles for cognitive monitoring of operators working in information-rich, enclosed control environments. Requirements include a PhD in cognitive science, engineering, or related field with a concentration or in depth experience in modeling and statistical signal processing / machine learning methods.</p>
</blockquote><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-left: 0in; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: justify; "><b><font color="blue">Three researchers based primarily at Army Research Laboratories, Aberdeen, Maryland, </font></b>with allowance for up to 3 months per year of collaborative research at UCSD or other project partners in San Antonio Texas, Ann Arbor Michigan, Taiwan, Osnabruck Germany and/or elsewhere. Funding for these positions will be available for 5-10 years, with transitions to civil service employment possible. Candidates must have a PhD in a relevant discipline and should be US citizens. These researchers will collaborate in developing and implementing the advanced methods of data recording and analysis with project groups at UCSD and other universities, while collaborating with ARL researchers to design, perform, and analyze parallel basic and applied research studies. Areas of research may include programming of numerical, parallel GPU-based analysis and real-time interactive data collection software, cognitive science or bioengineering with an emphasis on data modeling and machine learning, or a related area. Applications from both new PhD and more senior researchers will be considered.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Scott Makeig, Research Scientist and Director, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla CA 92093-0961, <a href="http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~scott">http://sccn.ucsd.edu/~scott</a><br>
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