We are looking for curious and talented individuals who share our vision of helping the blind see again.
If you are interested in joining us, check out our Lab Manual to familiarize yourself with our lab policies.
Postdocs
Please contact Michael with your CV and a brief statement
of research accomplishments, interests, and career plans.
Although all applicants are welcome, we are especially looking for expertise at the intersection of computational neuroscience and data science.
To be considered, you will need at least one publication
in a high-quality international conference (computer science)
or journal (neuroscience)
and you need to have a reasonable chance of getting a fellowship
to support your stay at UCSB.
PhD Students
If you are looking for a graduate position and you are not already at UCSB,
the deadline to join us in Fall 2021 has now passed.
The next deadline will happen in December 2021.
CS Master's Students
If you are a UCSB CS Master’s student looking for a project,
please contact Michael to set up a time to meet.
We are looking for students interested in applying their methodological skills to research problems in bionic vision.
All students should have a solid programming background and strengths in one of the following:
- Human-computer interaction: Build VR/AR/XR applications applied to low vision and bionic vision (Unity, compute shaders, image processing, bionic vision simulations, eye tracking)
- Machine learning/data science: Build predictive models applied to real-world datasets collected on retinal prosthesis
patients (classification, regression, time-series analysis, interpretable models, heterogeneous data).
- Software engineering/parallel programming: Develop parallelization back ends for
pulse2percept, our open-source Python-based simulation
framework (Python, Cython, SciPy, OpenMP, GPGPU, JAX).
Undergraduate Students
If you are a UCSB undergraduate interested in joining the lab,
please contact Michael
with your prior experience and your transcript (unofficial is fine)
and we can arrange a meeting.
In general, students stay for several quarters (one quarter is not enough to get up to speed)
and work for academic credit or on a volunteer basis.
Students should have a GPA of ≥ 3.0 (University requirement).
Typical responsibilities include one or more of the following:
- Assist in running behavioral studies (typically PSY-99 / 199)
- Develop applications for pulse2percept (typically CS-196)
- Get hands-on research experience by shadowing a PhD student
- Process and analyze scientific data
- Perform literature reviews
- Attend weekly lab meetings and present once a quarter
Prior research and/or programming experience is not necessary, but will drastically increase your chances of getting in
(e.g., Python/R, Matlab, Unity, web-dev).
For more information on expectations, responsibilities, and how your performance will be evaluated, please refer to our Lab Manual.
