Faculty Mentor: Elliot Smith
Title: Assistant Professor
College: Medicine
School / Department: Neurosurgery
Email: e.h.smith@utah.edu
Project description
The Human Neuronal Computation Lab in the Neurosurgery Department is looking for researchers with computational (signal processing, statistics, computational modeling) or coding (python, matlab, R) to work with human brain signals (single neuron activity, local field potential activity) in order to understand the neural underpinnings of human executive function.
Student Role: The lab has collected a lot of data, so students with coding and computational skills could make rapid progress on these organized datasets.
Student Benefits: students will gain skills in neural data analysis, time series analysis, statistical modeling, and psychophysics, all while sharpening programming and data wrangling skills.
Project Duration: flexible
Opportunity Type: Volunteer; This is a paid research position; Prepare a UROP proposal; Write an Honors Thesis or Senior Thesis
Is this a paid opportunity: No
Minimum Requirements: an interest in the brain and carrying out computational studies of brain activity, as well as basic computational and coding skills.