Several Ph.D. positions at SFU, Vancouver (clinical EEG recordings and medical texts).

Several fully-funded Ph.D. positions are available at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), at the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology and the School of Engineering Science. Ph.D. candidates will focus on research in neurophysiology, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), and machine learning to study clinical populations.

One of the large-scale projects is based on an extensive dataset of routine clinical EEG recorded and evaluated in the process of a diagnostic workup at four local public hospitals. The data include EEG scans and corresponding EEG reports (written impressions of the visual analysis of the EEG, which was done by neurologists). One Ph.D. project will use EEG recordings to predict clinically-relevant labels. The other project will apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools to develop models for extracting labels from EEG reports.

For more information, please contact Dr. Sam Doesburg or Dr. Vasily Vakorin: https://www.bcni-sfu.net . If you are interested, please send your cover letter and CV to vvakorin@sfu.ca . Please name the attached files according to the format: Lastname_Firstname_cv.pdf and Lastname_Firstname_coverletter.pdf .

Thank you, Vasily Vakorin, Ph.D. Scientist & NeuroInformatics Lead - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Institute Adjunct Professor - Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada Affiliated Researcher - Fraser Health Authority, British Columbia Email: vvakorin@sfu.ca