[Comp-neuro] Research Associate Position at University of Manchester

https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=7520

You will join the SpiNNaker team, part of the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) group within the School of Computer Science at Manchester. The APT group is a world-leading research centre, continuing the long and distinguished record of the University of Manchester in the field of Computer Architecture. This record includes the development of the world's first stored program computer, the invention of virtual memory and the building of the first practical Dataflow computer.

The group's high international research profile has attracted a great deal of UK and EU funding and resulted in significant industrial collaboration. The APT staff have significant expertise in computer architecture, system software and Neuromorphic Engineering, which is demonstrated by its extensive industrial impact (e.g. the ICL Goldrush Database server, Amulet processors for ARM Ltd., and Transitive Corporation, now IBM Manchester, and Silistix Ltd. spin offs).

As a Research Associate  you will have a PhD (or equivalent experience) and possess proven research ability.

As a Research Assistant a good/relevant MSc (or equivalent experience) is essential.

You will also have knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

1. Hardware system development and commissioning including FPGA design, basic robotics, circuit board testing, microprocessor systems, ARM processors.
2. System software development including operating systems, parallel computing, C and Python programming.

Informal Enquiries

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Steve Furber, ICL Professor of Computer Engineering

Email:   steve.furber@manchester.ac.uk

More information can be found at:

http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk

http://apt.cs.man.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/

http://www.prime-project.org

http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/people/sfurber

Please note for the Research Assistant post if you do not have permission to work in the UK, the University of Manchester will not be able to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship for you to take up this position.  Therefore you must have valid immigration status and/or a UK visa valid for the duration of the contract.

The University of Manchester values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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Dr Sergio Davies

Research associate - APT Group   Room IT 302 - IT Building
School of Computer Science       Oxford Road, Manchester
The University of Manchester     M13 9PL, U.K.

mailto: daviess@cs.man.ac.uk
mailto: sergio.davies@gmail.com
http://apt.cs.man.ac.uk/people/daviess/

[Comp-neuro] Research Associate Position at University of Manchester

https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=7614

Applications are invited for the above post to work as research assistant/associate on the SpiNNaker project. The SpiNNaker architecture is optimized to support the simulation of simple (point-like) neurons and their connections (or synapses). This architecture now has a world-wide user base, drawn to a reliable and flexible platform for real-time neural network simulation; this community is comprised of both traditional computational neuroscientists and also scientists and engineers from application areas such as robotics.

The position is linked to the PRiME EPSRC-funded Programme Grant led by the University of Southampton, with Imperial College, London, and the Universities of Manchester and Newcastle as partners. This position will run immediately until 12th May 2018.

You will join the SpiNNaker team, part of the Advanced Processor Technologies (APT) group within the School of Computer Science at Manchester. The APT group is a world-leading research centre, continuing the long and distinguished record of the University of Manchester in the field of Computer Architecture. This record includes the development of the world's first stored program computer, the invention of virtual memory and the building of the first practical Dataflow computer. The group's high international research profile has attracted a great deal of UK and EU funding and resulted in significant industrial collaboration. The APT staff have significant expertise in computer architecture, system software and Neuromorphic Engineering, which is demonstrated by its extensive industrial impact (e.g. the ICL Goldrush Database server, Amulet processors for ARM Ltd., and Transitive Corporation, now IBM Manchester, and Silistix Ltd. spin offs).

We are seeking a motivated researcher with knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

1. Hardware system development and commissioning including FPGA design, basic robotics, circuit board testing, microprocessor systems, ARM processors.
2. System software development including operating systems, parallel computing, C and Python programming.

It is essential that candidates for the Research Associate appointment should possess proven research ability, a PhD or other equivalent experience, while a good/relevant MSc or other equivalent experience will be essential for the Research Assistant appointment.

Please note that if you do not have permission to work in the UK, the University of Manchester will not be able to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship for you to take up the Research Assistant position. All non EU/EEA candidates must have valid immigration status and/or a UK visa valid for the duration of the contract in order to be considered for this appointment.

Informal enquiries

Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Steve Furber,

Email: steve.furber@manchester.ac.uk

The University of Manchester values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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Dr Sergio Davies

Research associate - APT Group   Room IT 302 - IT Building
School of Computer Science       Oxford Road, Manchester
The University of Manchester     M13 9PL, U.K.

mailto: daviess@cs.man.ac.uk
mailto: sergio.davies@gmail.com
http://apt.cs.man.ac.uk/people/daviess/

[Comp-neuro] Research Associate position at Bernstein Centre Freiburg, Germany

Invitation for applications:

Research Associate in Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

Bernstein Centre, University of Freiburg 

A research associate position ('akademischer Rat', A13Z) is available in the group of Carsten Mehring at the Bernstein Centre and the Institute of Biology 3 at the University of Freiburg, Germany. This is a new lab, established to study sensorimotor behavior and brain-machine interfaces. Research topics include: motor adaptation and skill learning; brain-machine and machine-brain interfaces; neuronal dynamics; decision making. The primary research tools are behavioural experiments, electrophysiology and neuroimaging (EEG, ECoG, fNIRS), transcranial electrical stimulation (tDCS&tACS), advanced neural signal analysis and computational modeling. We are looking for an enthusiastic scientist who has expertise in Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology.

This is a full-time position, with an initial 3 years fixed-term contract that can be extended by another 3 years. The salary will be according to A13. The position includes teaching duties in neuroscience, which can be carried out in English. Starting date is flexible, if possible May/June 2014.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in quantitative analysis, experience running behavioural and/or neurophysiological experiments and proficiency in programming. A PhD in a relevant field is required.

The lab is located in Freiburg (Germany), which is in the southwest of Germany close to the French and Swiss borders. Freiburg has a vibrant academic community and our group is part of the Bernstein Centre Freiburg (http://www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de) and the cluster of excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools (http://www.brainlinks-braintools.uni-freiburg.de), which provide first-class environments for research on Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology.

Applicants should email a CV, a letter of motivation, a short research statement (max. 1 page) and contact details for two academic references to carsten.mehring@biologie.uni-freiburg.de. Reviewing of applications starts on April, 15th.

 
Further information:
Carsten Mehring
carsten.mehring@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
http://www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de/people/details/mehring

[Comp-neuro] First neural connectomics challenge: from imaging to connectivity

The brain contains nearly 100 billion neurons with an average 7000 synaptic connections. Recovering the exact wiring of the brain (connectome) at this neural level is therefore a daunting task. Traditional neuroanatomical methods of axonal tracing or electrophysiological direct assays cannot scale up to very large networks. Could there be alternative methods, such as inference algorithms, to recovering neural network structures from patterns of neural activity? This challenge (inaugurating a series of future "Connectomics" challenges) will stimulate research on network structure inference from calcium fluorescence data, including causal discovery methods.

WHAT YOU GET: Time series of the activity of 1000 neurons in a culture (simulated calcium fluorescence data)

WHAT YOU PREDICT: The directed connections between neurons.

45 days to go, 3000 $ allocated for the top three ranked competitors (if they accept to make an open release of their code ;-)
Challenge submission website: https://www.kaggle.com/c/connectomics

Over 70 teams are already attending! There will be $3000 in prizes awarded.

We are an official challenge at IEEE WCCI 2014 meeting in Beijing, where challenge results will be spotlighted:
http://www.ieee-wcci2014.org (see "accepted competitions")

Participants may present their results at a dedicated workshop at ECML 2014 (Nancy, France):
http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org (see "discovery challenges")
http://connectomics.chalearn.org/workshop (workshop webpage)

The top-ranked challenge participants and authors of the best workshop papers will be invited to participate to full length submissions (individual or collective, including detailed post-challenge analytics and algorithm comparisons and benchmarking) to peer-reviewed journals, such as Frontiers in Neuroinformatics or PLoS Computational Biology.

Calendar:
May 5, 2014: End of challenge.
May 20, 2014: All teams must turn in fact sheets. The three top ranking teams must turn in their code to qualify for prizes. The post-challenge verifications start.
June 1, 2014: End of the post challenge verifications. Release of the official ranking.
June 20, 2014: ECML workshop proceeding paper submission deadline.
July 6-11, 2014: Result presentation at WCCI 2014, Beijing, China.
August 30, 2014: Revised papers due for ECML workshop proceedings. Beginning of post-challenge papers design.
September 15 or 19, 2014: ECML workshop, Nancy, France. Discussion of the results and preparation of post-challenge synthesis.

For any information or request, please contact:

Demian Battaglia, demian.battaglia@univ-amu.fr

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Demian Battaglia, PhD
Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Aix-Marseille Université - Marseille, France
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience - Göttingen, Germany
http://www.nld.ds.mpg.de/~demian
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[Comp-neuro] Deadline is Approaching:: CFP::4th DICTAP- IEEE-Thailand

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The Fourth International Conference on Digital Information and Communication

Technology and its Applications (DICTAP 2014)

University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce, Bangkok, Thailand

May 6-8, 2014

http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dictap2014/

 

DICTAP 2014 is technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE- Thailand

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Paper Submission Deadline:  April 06, 2014

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**Scope and Motivation**

The Fourth International Conference on Digital Information and CommunicationTechnology and its Applications (DICTAP 2014) cover theoretical and practical aspects related to Information Systems, Communication Networks and Computing Technologies. The multi-thematic program of DICTAP 2104 focuses then on the major future scientific issues in Computing and Communication Networks. The scientific topics developed in his edition are divided into but not limited to the following tracks: 

 

- Networking, Communications and Security

- Information Technology, Services and Architecture

- Digital Information Management     

- PHY-Layer Communications and Signal Processing

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[Comp-neuro] The Scientific World Journal special issue titled 'Hybrid Systems to Investigate the Computational and Learning Properties of Neuronal Assemblies’

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the extension of the deadline for submitting your contribution to the special issue of The Scientific World Journal (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/ titled 'Hybrid Systems to Investigate the Computational and Learning Properties of Neuronal Assemblies'.

 

The Scientific World Journal is open access and with an impact factor of 1.730. You can find the call for paper here: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/si/438539/cfp/.

 

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

·         Encoding of inputs and retrieval of memories in cultured and simulated neuronal networks

·         Learning and adaptation in cultured networks

·         Electrophysiological experiments in closed-loop systems

·         Mathematical neuronal network models as tools to deduce computational properties of neural circuits

·         Hybrid systems: living networks coupled to artificial ones

·         Software and hardware strategies to manipulate and control neuronal dynamics

 

Deadline for article submission: May 30th, 2014; Publication date: October 17^th, 2014.

 

On behalf of the other guest editors [Paolo Massobrio (University of Genova, Italy), Danny Eytan (The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada), Paolo Bonifazi (Tel Aviv University, Israel) and Paul Tiesinga (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)], I look forward to receiving your contribution!

 

Best regards

Michela Chiappalone

 

Lead Guest Editor

The Scientific World Journal

 

 

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Dr Michela Chiappalone, PhD

NeuroTech Group

Department of Neuroscience and Brain Technologies (NBT)

Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Via Morego 30

16163 Genova (Italy)

 e-mail : michela.chiappalone@iit.it

web-site : www.iit.it

direct phone :  +39 010 71781743_

[Comp-neuro] Ph.D. position in Systems and Control

re: A fully funded Ph.D. graduate study in Uppsala University, Sweden, Department of Information Technology, Division of Systems and Control (4yrs.+1yr. teaching).

subject: This position aims at relating modern insights in (Online) Machine Learning (OML) to the esteemed tool of the Kalman Filter (KF). OML has led to renewed insights in such tasks as optimisation, multiple-armed bandits algorithms and sequential designs, and comes nowadays with a solid theoretical underpinning.  The KF on the other hand, is the workhorse of  the control-engineering, and is for example used as the observer of choice in many state-feedback schemes. It is analysed and found optimal in different settings. 

Integrating KFs in a modern OML setting would provide new insights and modifications to basic schemes.The particular focus would be how to extend the KF to the case of many variables. Modern techniques of OML have excelled in  this topic, while traditional approaches as the KF have not been studied extensively in this regard.

practical: This is a full-time funded position covering five years in total. The successful candidate is expected to spend 80% on this research challenge, as well as 20% on assisting in different (under-) graduate courses taught at our division. The deadline for application is April 22 (right after easter). The applicant can start directly after that (in spring 2014). Supervisor for this project is Kristiaan Pelckmans. Do send an email to kp@it.uu.se for further enquiries. Swedish citizens are encouraged to apply. A link to the official site of application will be sent out via the same channels in the near future.