Princeton University
Location
Princeton, NJ | United States
Job description
Research Specialist II
US-NJ-Princeton
Job ID: 2024-18392
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Research and Laboratory
Princeton University
Overview
The Hasson lab in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute has an opportunity available for a research assistant. The Hasson lab is part of an exciting and growing trend in neuroscience that studies the neural activity that drives human behavior under natural and realistic conditions. Among other things, the candidate will work with ECoG data and machine learning algorithms on one of our flagship projects.
Ideal candidates should be highly motivated, driven, and work well in a team. Candidates with a strong background and in Computer Science, electrical engineering, physics, statistics, neuroscience, linguistics, or math, and who have experience in programing, software engineering, signal detection, and machine learning are highly encouraged to apply.
This is a one-year term position with the possibility of extension based upon satisfactory performance and continued funding.
Responsibilities include:
- Supporting existing code-base. Applying existing analysis tools on current unique dataset of family life
- Preprocessing new data
- Analyzing datasets. Implementing deep conversation models on datasets. Implementing deep image models on datasets
- Developing new deep models for analyzing data
- Maintaining the analysis pipeline currently in develpment
- Using deep language models to encode and decode neural responses
Essential Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree plus >3 years of experience in Neuroscience, Psychology, Neurobiology, computer Science, Linguistics or related field.
Demonstrated experience in programing (Matlab,Python), software engineering, signal detection, and machine learning.
Ideal candidates should be highly motivated, driven, and work well in a team.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with research in the field of Computational Neuroscience, AI and Machine Learning Models.
This position is subject to the University's background check policy.
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About Princeton University
Princeton University is a vibrant community of scholarship and learning that stands in the nation's service and in the service of all nations. Chartered in 1746, Princeton is the fourth-oldest college in the United States. Princeton is an independent, coeducational, nondenominational institution that provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering.As a world-renowned research university, Princeton seeks to achieve the highest levels of distinction in the discovery and transmission of knowledge and understanding. At the same time, Princeton is distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.Today, more than 1,100 faculty members instruct approximately 5,200 undergraduate students and 2,600 graduate students. The University's generous financial aid program ensures that talented students from all economic backgrounds can afford a Princeton education.
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