Research Support Assistant II
New York State Psychiatry Institute•New York, NY
•Onsite
About The Position
The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene is seeking a qualified Research Support Assistant II for a short-term position. This role involves investigating neural activity and serotonin biosensor signals obtained from brain tissue in pre-clinical models of stress and fear generalization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Science and/or information technology
- At least (1) Year experience with Python and MATLAB
- At least (1) Year experience analyzing time series signals
- At least (1) Year experience with probabilistic classification models in NumPy, SciPy, and SciKit-learn
Nice To Haves
- At least (1) Year experience with probabilistic modeling or dynamical systems.
- Familiarity with neuroscience or biosensor data.
- Prior exposure to HiddenMarkov Models or representational similarity analysis.
Responsibilities
- Preprocessing and normalization of simultaneous neural activity and serotonin signals.
- Implementing and validating three computational analyses: multivariate Hidden Markov Models, Representational Similarity Analysis, and linear decoding with permutation testing
- Extracting per-animal metrics for group-level statistical comparison.
- Generating publication-quality figures.
Benefits
- Excellent Benefits Package.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
