Graduate student positions and postdoctoral research positions are
available in the area of medical engineering.
Students with research interests at the interface of
electrical
engineering and
biology
are especially encouraged to apply.
Topics include:
o modeling of epileptic seizures (from abstract network models to
detailed biophysical models);
o neural implants for seizure suppression (from control/game theoretic
analysis to hardware design);
o diagnosis of brain disorders, from EEG and other brain signals
(Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy);
o graphical models and nonparametric statistical models for
analyzing electrophysiological data (e.g., spike sorting and decoding);
o principled statistical models for merging different brain imaging
modalities (EEG/MEG/fMRI/DTI/single-unit recordings/etc.);
o compression
of brain signals, with application to brain-computer interfaces and
monitoring of epileptic patients (from information theoretic analysis
to practical algorithms).
The research is conducted in collaboration with partners at the RIKEN
Brain Science Institute, MIT, MGH, Harvard University.
Besides the above positions, I'm also recruiting students and postdocs
for projects within the
Singapore-MIT
Alliance for Research &
Technology (SMART), to be supervised by myself and MIT
faculty.
In those projects we apply
mathematical
engineering to problems in
bioengineering
and
biochemistry, for
example:
o Bayesian multiscale modeling of cell physiology
o stochastic
modeling and control engineering in the context of tissue generation.
See the following links for more
information:
o
Information about
various graduate/postdoctoral
scholarships can be found here
and also here;
o
Information on living
in Singapore;
o
General information on graduate
studies in Singapore;
o Information about the
research in the
lab.