November 2015 - Comp-neuro - lists.cnsorg.org

Research Scientist and Intern Positions in Brain-Inspired Computing at IBM Research - Almaden

by John Arthur

IBM's Brain-Inspired Computing team at IBM Research - Almaden has built a first-of-a-kind modular, scalable, non-von Neumann, ultra-low power, cognitive computing architecture (TrueNorth) and associated end-to-end software ecosystem. We are building state-of-the-art digital spiking neuromorphic chips and systems (large-scale and mobile) to solve real-time sensory problems. We seek team members with varied backgrounds and experiences for positions in software engineering, systems design, chip design, algorithm/application development, theoretical understanding and education/training. http://modha.org To receive full consideration, please apply using the link below to ensure your resume/CV will be directed to the appropriate hiring manager. Research Scientist: http://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGWebHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerid=26059&si… Research Intern: http://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGWebHost/jobdetails.aspx?partnerid=26059&si…

Nov. 30, 2015

POSTDOCTORAL GRANT - DATA SCIENCE FOR THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

by Carlos Ferreira

- PLEASE CIRCULATE --- POSTDOCTORAL GRANT - DATA SCIENCE FOR THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY INESC TEC (Porto / Portugal) is accepting applications to award 1 Postdoctoral Grant witjhin the Project "INESC TEC - EEA/50014", in the following work area: Data science for the oil industry. Academic Qualifications: PhD in computer science / data science or alike. Minimum Profile required: Very good to excellent writing skills in English; Good communication skills; Very good knowledge of data science / data mining; Willingness to put data science into practice. Preference factors: Very good to excellent writing skills in Portuguese; Knowledge of the oil industry; Experience of data mining with big data. Reference: AE2015-0182 (INESC TEC LA - LIAAD) Project Name: INESC TEC - EEA/5001 Reference Monthly Value: EUR 1495,00 Application Period: 2015-12-09 to 2015-12-22 More info: http://www.inesctec.pt/ip-en/work-with-us/bolsas-inescporto/concurso-para-a… Carlos Ferreira [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<http://www.isep.ipp.pt>

Nov. 30, 2015

NICE Workshop registration and abstract submission

by Aimone, James Bradley

2016 Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements Workshop March 7, 2016-March 9, 2016 Berkeley, CA Registration and abstract submission open http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/2016-neuro-inspired-computational-elements… About the meeting Neuro-inspired Computational Elements (NICE) workshops have been held for the last three years, bringing the very wide ranging scientific disciplines (neuroscience: imaging, theory, algorithms), hardware and applications communities looking for a common ground to accelerate the development of next generation of computing approaches. The key outcome will be the further clarification of the value proposition for neuro-inspired/neuromorphic computing: why and how could these systems deliver the performance and efficiency we seek beyond conventional computing approaches? The concurrent task for the workshop is to identify pathways for building and accelerating the evaluation and development of such systems. Speakers include: Steve Zornetzer (NASA Ames) Steve Furber (University of Manchester) Winfield Wilcke (IBM) Wolfgang Maas (Technishe Universitat Graz) Michael Schmucker (University of Sussex) David Kirk (NVidia) Giacomo Indiveri (University of Zurich) Bruce Hendrickson (Sandia National Laboratories) Alice Parker (USC) Dharmendra Modha (IBM) To Register Please click on the following registration page link https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1749241 If you are interested in presenting at the workshop, we ask that you submit an extended abstract (1 page max pdf) during registration. There is an opportunity to upload your abstract at the bottom of the "personal information" page. After your information is entered you will be asked to pay. The 3 day event costs $275.00 per person, plus processing fees. -------------------------- James Bradley Aimone, Ph.D. Principal Member of Technical Staff Data-driven and Neural Computing Department Sandia National Laboratories Phone: (505) 284-3147 Fax: (505) 844-4728

Nov. 30, 2015

Researcher and Engineer positions at ATR Brain Labs., Kyoto, Japan

by KANEMURA Atsunori

Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan, has openings for researcher and research engineer positions and invite applications from people with strong motivations and ambitions in the research project described below. We will study how to analyze multi-modal sensor measurements to create "artificial intelligence with consciousness" by installing a "consciousness module" to man-made information-processing systems. In particular, we will develop and implement machine-learning techniques for attention, which dynamically processes data stream to find where to focus and intensively analyze and picks up information essential for decision-making. Our attention module will be developed for video, audio, and bio signals. Our project is in close collaboration with neuroscientists led by Dr. Ryota Kanai (CEO & Chief Scientist, ARAYA Brain Imaging, Tokyo, Japan). PIs and co-PIs in the project are Dr. Ryota Kanai (ARAYA), Prof. Naotsugu Tsuchiya (Monash University, Australia), Dr. Masafumi Oizumi (RIKEN, Japan), Dr. Motoaki Kawanabe (ATR), and Prof. Takuya Maekawa (Osaka University, Japan). We look forward to your applications and recommendations. Motoaki Kawanabe, Ph.D. Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan = Requirements for Researchers = Applicants must: - have a Ph.D. (or be near completion). - have strong motivations and ambitions to take part in the research above. Successful candidates will have interest in neural and cognitive science with expertise in one or more of the following areas are welcomed: - Machine learning, pattern recognition, signal processing, computer vision, robotics, bio-medical engineering. = Requirements for Research Engineers = Applicants must have strong motivations and ambitions to take part in the research above mainly from program development, data analysis, and experimental support. = Number of openings = A few = Employment conditions = Position : Full-time Researcher / Full-time Research Engineer Tenure : Single year based contract, renewable based on evaluation Treatment: Based on individual performance Work Location: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan = Application materials = Please submit the following five materials to the contact address below, either in printed or electronic form: 1. CV 2. List of publications 3. Reprints of 1-3 major publications (applicants for Researchers) or summary of past projects 4. Essay (up to two pages in A4 or letter size) describing: - Summary of your previous research and/or development - Interests for research - Additional research skills not directly foreseeable from 1 or 2 5. Recommendation letters from more than two researchers * If submitted in printed form, original documents will not be returned. = Judging system = After documentary examination, we ask for presentation and interview if needed = Starting date = Soon (negotiable) = Deadline for application = Opens until positions are filled. = Contact = Department of Dynamic Brain Imaging ATR Cognitive Mechanisms Laboratories (Application for Researcher Position) 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan Email: dbi-cma(a)atr.jp = Use of personal data = All personal data received will be properly managed and only be used for the purpose of recruitment. -- KANEMURA Atsunori, Ph.D. Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Japan

Nov. 28, 2015

lecturer/senior lecturer in cognitive neuroscience at UCL

by Burgess, Neil

The UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience is looking to recruit a Lecturer/Senior lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience (roughly equivalent to assistant/associate professor). For details please see: http://tinyurl.com/nweqtr2 Best wishes Neil

Nov. 26, 2015

NEURAL COMPUTATION - December 1, 2015

by Terry Sejnowski

Neural Computation - Volume 27, Number 12 - December 1, 2015 Available online for download now: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/neco/27/12 ----- Article Periodic Forcing of Stabilized E-I Networks: Nonlinear Resonance Curves and Dynamics Romain Veltz, Terrence J. Sejnowski Letters Rhythmic Inhibition Allows Neural Networks to Search for Maximally Consistent States Hesham Mostafa, Lorenz K. Mueller and Giacomo Indiveri Learning Spatio-Temporally Encoded Pattern Transformations in Structured Spiking Neural Networks Brian Gardner, Ioana Sporea, and Andre Gruening A Sparse Reformulation of the Green's Function Formalism Allows Efficient Simulations of Morphological Neuron Models Willem A.M. Wybo, Daniele Boccalini, Benjamin Torben-Nielsen, and Marc-Oliver Gewaltig Positive Neural Networks in Discrete Time Implement Monotone-Regular Behaviors Tom J Ameloot, Jan Van den Bussche Symbolic Computation Using Cellular Automata Based Hyperdimensional Computing Ozgur Yilmaz ------------ ON-LINE -- http://www.mitpressjournals.org/neuralcomp SUBSCRIPTIONS - 2015 - VOLUME 27 - 12 ISSUES Student/Retired $75 Individual $134 Institution $1,075 MIT Press Journals, One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209 Tel: (617) 253-2889 FAX: (617) 577-1545 journals-cs(a)mit.edu ------------

Nov. 25, 2015

MURI Winter School Jan. 6-8, 2016 **Registration NOW OPEN**

by Santamaria, Cookie

UC San Diego and The University of Chicago Present: MURI WINTER SCHOOL 2016<http://biocircuits.ucsd.edu/special/winterschool2016/> Dynamics of Multifunction Brain Networks: Sequences and Syntax Organizers: Timothy Gentner (UCSD), Howard Nusbaum (Univ. Chicago), and Mikhail Rabinovich (UCSD) 15th Floor, Building 1, Village West, UC San Diego<http://maps.ucsd.edu/mapping/viewer/default.htm?mkey=1&lc=open&km=open&rc=c…> January 6-8, 2016 Registration<http://goo.gl/forms/9vvf6jTjpx> Deadline: Friday, December 11, 2015 Abstract Submission<http://goo.gl/forms/a8domGTGIF> Deadline: Friday, December 4, 2015 Lecturers: Dean Buonomano<https://www.neurobio.ucla.edu/~dbuono/> (UCLA) - "Telling time with neural dynamics" Edward Chang<http://changlab.ucsf.edu/> (UC San Francisco) - "Human auditory cortex functional organization in speech processing" and "A basic overview of high-order auditory speech processing in humans" Christopher Conway<http://sites.gsu.edu/neurolearnlab/> (Georgia State University) - "Structured sequence processing: Underlying principles, mechanisms, and constraints" and "The role of sequence processing and prediction in typical and atypical language development" T. Florian Jaeger<https://www.hlp.rochester.edu/> (University of Rochester) - "Sequence learning and language evolution Part I: Qualifying behavioral complexity" and "Sequence learning and language evolution Part II: Networks and dynamics in the primate brain" Chris Petkov<https://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/chris.petkov/> (Newcastle University) - "Human auditory cortex functional organization in speech processing" and "A basic overview of high-order auditory speech processing in humans" Nicholas Turk-Browne<http://ntblab.princeton.edu/> (Princeton University) - "Sequential learning in the mind and brain" and "Extraction of temporal regularities by the medial temporal lobe" ________________________________________________________________________________ This is the fourth annual Winter School sponsored by the U.S. Office of Naval Research as part of its UCSD/ Chicago MURI program in Dynamics of Multifunction Brain Networks. This year's School presents a series of pedagogical and research oriented talks on the behavioral, neurobiological, and computational principles that underlie sequence and syntactic processes in human and non-human animals. It includes a series of educational presentations and a poster session. The School is intended for all researchers, including advanced graduate students, interested in the general area of understanding functional nervous systems. Active participation during the School's lectures is strongly encouraged. All attendees are invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations. Selected contributed posters will be highlighted in an oral session. Registration is required for attendance, but there is no fee for attending. A limited number of travel awards are available for exceptionally qualified graduate students and postdocs, who should apply to and have their supervisor send a letter of reference to muri.winter.school(a)gmail.com<mailto:muri.winter.school@gmail.com>. Please visit us online to register<http://goo.gl/forms/9vvf6jTjpx> and for details regarding the schedule and poster abstract submission: http://biocircuits.ucsd.edu/special/winterschool2016/

Nov. 24, 2015

postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience in Barcelona

by Alex Roxin

The Computational Neuroscience Group at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica in Barcelona, Spain is looking for applicants for a postdoctoral position. Applicants will apply through a call from the Barcelona Graduate Schoool of Mathematics, which is now open. The deadline for application is the 15th of January 2016. There are a total of four positions in all areas of mathematics and as such this call will be highly competitive. Candidates with a very strong mathematics background and interest in computational neuroscience are encouraged to apply. No previous neuroscience experience is required. To apply please go to http://www.bgsmath.cat/postdoc-call-nov-2015/ If you have any questions regarding the Computational Neuroscience Group at the CRM, please contact Alex Roxin at aroxin(a)crm.cat. Alex Roxin Computational Neuroscience Group Centre de Recerca Matemàtica Campus de Bellaterra, Edifici C 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain +34-935-868-508 aroxin(a)crm.cat https://sites.google.com/site/alexanderroxin/home

Nov. 24, 2015

Postdoc position in neural engineering for a system designer to design, implement, and test a novel noninvasive neural recording system (CMU, Pittsburgh)

by Pulkit Grover

A team of three engineers (Grover, Weldon, Kelly) is seeking an interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellow for a 1 year position (extendable, depending on fit and progress) to design, implement and experimentally test, a high density neural recording system. The ongoing project will leverage results obtained by the investigators to disrupt neural recording systems as they exist, providing novel solutions to long-standing open problems of clinical and neuroscientific relevance. A successful candidate will be paid competitively. The overall team comprises: * Pulkit Grover (Information theory, signal processing, circuits, CMU ECE and CNBC) * Jeffrey Weldon (circuits, devices, CMU ECE) * Shawn Kelly (circuits, devices, neural implants, CMU ECE and ICES) * Marlene Behrmann (neuroscience, member of National Academy of Sciences, CMU Psych and CNBC) * Michael Tarr (neuroscience, head of psychology, CMU Psych and CNBC) * Dr. Mark Richardson (Director, Adult Epilepsy and Movement Disorders Surgery and Brain Modulation Lab, University of Pittsburgh and CNBC) The candidate will be expected to interact regularly with the first three, and intermittently with the rest, to lead this project. Preferred skills: System-level design and hardware implementation experience is a must. Experience in board design will be helpful. Expertise in MATLAB, circuits, neuroengineering/neuroscience, signal processing, information theory, devices, is helpful but not necessary. The team also includes one Ph.D. and six undergraduate students working on information theory and circuit design for these systems, and actively collaborates with faculty in psychology and neuroscience, and clinicians. The fellow is expected to focus on system design, implementation, and testing. The concepts and implementation developed by our group lay the foundation for this project. Within one year, the fellow is expected to: * Lead design and implementation of an ongoing high-density neural recording system project at CMU (using off-the-shelf components), and * (Collaboratively) experimentally validate it, neuroscientifically and clinically. As such, this is a challenging yet accomplishable postdoctoral position providing a unique interdisciplinary opportunity to the applicants. Applicants should hold a PhD. Those with a mix of board-design, circuits-design, and/or signal processing/optimization/bioengineering background, with interest in neuroscience/neuroengineering/bioengineering, are especially encouraged to apply. Interested applicants should send a letter of interest, a CV, and the names and contact information for 3 researchers who can provide a recommendation: pulkit(a)cmu.edu, jweldon(a)andrew.cmu.edu, skkelly(a)andrew.cmu.edu . For further information, please send an email to the three email addresses as well. The position is available immediately and applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Nov. 24, 2015

PhD openings in Computational Brain at Rutgers

by Konstantinos Michmizos

The Laboratory for Computational Brain Modeling and Analysis at Rutgers University has several funded openings for PhD students in Computational Brain Our Lab is part of the CS Department, which has been consistently ranked at the top-35 CS Departments in U.S. We are searching for Renaissance types who are broadly trained and can march across disciplines to find solutions In addition to Computer Science, there are 5 areas of knowledge required for a successful presence in the Lab - robotics, signal analysis, system identification, mathematics and neurophysiology When you come (or when you leave), you are expected to be proficient in at least three of these areas Interested students could send a 1-page summary of their background and how it relates to the Computational Brain Analysis and Modeling as well as their CV to: konstantinos.michmizos(a)cs.rutgers.edu, with email subject: PhD_openings-Comp_Neuro-2016 === Applying Please note the PhD admission criteria for the CS Department, listed at https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/graduate/faq.whtml The deadline to be considered for the Fall semester of 2016 is January 1st All complete applications should be submitted through our online application system http://gradstudy.rutgers.edu === Papers For the most recent papers relevant to these opportunities, interested students are invited to consult the following articles KP Michmizos, S Rossi, E Castelli, P Cappa, HI Krebs (2015) Robot-Aided Neurorehabilitation: A Pediatric Robot for Ankle Rehabilitation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, pp. 1-11, doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2015.2410773 S Khan, KP Michmizos, M Tommerdahl, S Ganesan, M Kitzbichler, M Zetino, K Garel, M Herbert, M Hamalainen, T Kenet (2015) Somatosensory cortex functional connectivity abnormalities in autism show opposite trends, depending on direction and spatial scale. Brain, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awv043 === COMBRA Lab COMBRA Lab has ongoing collaborations with research labs at MIT and McGill University as well as clinical sites at Harvard Medical School and the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital The Lab is integrated into the Center for Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling (CBIM) Center, a highly multidisciplinary Center at Rutgers that includes research labs on human motion capture experiments, machine learning and robotics === Rutgers University Rutgers University is the 8th-oldest college in the United States, one of the top-50 universities in the world with 250 years of innovation in research and teaching Rutgers is in the middle of the greatest concentration of industrial and government research laboratories in the U.S., within 1-hour drive to Manhattan, NY and Philadelphia -- -- combra.cs.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------- Konstantinos Michmizos Assistant Professor Head Computational Brain Modeling and Analysis Lab Computational Biomedicine Imaging and Modeling Center Department of Computer Science Rutgers University

Nov. 23, 2015