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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/rubencoencagli" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Laboratory
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 and Department of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) in the Bronx, New York City.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our lab studies how biological sensory systems interpret the surrounding environment. We study how populations of visual-cortical neurons represent and transmit visual information, and how those
 processes control perception. We combine theories of probabilistic neural coding, machine learning and natural image statistics, psychophysics, and neurophysiology through collaborations. The candidate is expected to perform research related to these topics,
 and will have the opportunity to interact closely with experimental collaborators and access to datasets including electrophysiology, imaging, and perturbations of large neural populations.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(2021) D. Festa et al.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i> </i></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Nature Communications </span><a href="https://rdcu.be/cmy7M" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">12:3635</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (preprint </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.17.142182" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">bioRxiv</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">)</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><u><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">(2020) J. Vacher et al. <span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><a href="https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2020/hash/fba9d88164f3e2d9109ee770223212a0-Abstract.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">NeurIPS
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</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">(2019) R. Coen-Cagli, S. S. Solomon</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><i>. </i></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Journal
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline, with an academic record of scientific excellence and independent research, and a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches to biological
 and neural systems. Prior experience should include areas such as computational neuroscience, machine learning, statistics, or computer vision. We are particularly interested in applicants with a genuine interest in linking theoretical and computational work
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 and computational contingent. It is located in a quiet neighborhood of the Bronx, New York. The Bronx is one of the most diverse counties in the United States, the birthplace of hip-hop, and home to a rich cultural and sports scene. Einstein is also a short
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