Friday, November 16, 2012

[Comp-neuro] Neuroscience Graduate Group at the University of Pennsylvania

The Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG) at the University of Pennsylvania is a collaborative and interdisciplinary PhD program. We are particularly interested in attracting exceptional applicants with backgrounds in Neuroscience, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, and/or Psychology and are interested in the broadly defined field of Computational Neuroscience. We have a robust and growing community of scholars in this field, including:

Vijay Balasubramanian, Department of Physics
David H Brainard, Department of Psychology
Maja Bucan, Department of Genetics
Gregory C Carlson, Department of Psychiatry
Alice S. Chen-Plotkin, Department of Neurology
Yale E. Cohen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Diego Contreras, Department of Neuroscience
Christopher M. Fang-Yen, Department of Bioengineering
Maria Neimark Geffen, Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Joshua I. Gold, Department of Neuroscience
John B. Hogenesch, Department of Pharmacology
Joseph W Kable, Department of Psychology
Michael J. Kahana, Department of Psychology
Max Kelz, Department of Anesthesiology
Brian Litt, Departments of Neurology and Bioengineering
Joel D. Mainland, Department of Neuroscience
Javier F Medina, Department of Psychology
Nicole C Rust, Department of Psychology
Robert G. Smith, Department of Neuroscience
Alan A Stocker, Department of Psychology

Penn also has strong programs in Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, and Psychology with faculty actively involved in machine learning, decision making, perception, and computational learning theory. NGG students are encouraged to pursue collaborations and interactions with these groups.

The application deadline for the NGG is December 3, 2013. For more details please see our website:






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