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<div>Three fully funded PhD fellowships in computational neurosciences (Benoit Cottereau’s team, Cerco, CNRS UMR<br>
5549 in Toulouse and IPAL IRL 2955 in Singapore) on spatial cognition with spiking neural networks</div>
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<div><b>Starting date: </b>Second semester of 2023</div>
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<b>Supervisors:</b> Benoit Cottereau, research director at CNRS (Contact: benoit.cottereau@cnrs.fr), in close collaboration with Robby Tan, associate professor at National University of Singapore (NUS)</div>
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<b>Keywords: </b>Computational neurosciences, Spatial cognition, Artificial intelligence (AI), Vision, Spiking neural networks, Event-based cameras</div>
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Three fully funded PhD fellowships are available to work at the CNRS (Cerco laboratory in Toulouse and also IPAL in Singapore) under the supervision of Benoit Cottereau (CNRS research director), in close collaboration with Robby Tan (assistant professor at
NUS, Singapore). The aim of the project is to develop computational models of spatial cognition in humans (e.g., for depth/motion perception or navigation). In order to reproduce the very low energy consumption of visual information processing in biological
systems, these models will be based on spiking-neural networks (SNNs) and will process data collected from event-based<br>
cameras. They should also adapt to variations in visual conditions (e.g., to night scenes or when parts of the input data are occluded). These models will be evaluated with respect to state-of-art approaches in computer vision/AI but also with respect to biological
data (their responses will be compared to those observed in neural recordings and/or in behavioural experiments).
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The candidates should be willing to work in an international environment which involves Singapore and France, have a good level in English, very good programming skills and be interested in neurobiology. Some knowledge in neurosciences / cognitive sciences
would be a plus.</div>
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The research will mainly take place in Toulouse, a student city (Toulouse is the second university hub in France) with high quality of life located in the south west of France (close to the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean Sea and the Spanish border). Long stays
in Singapore (a multicultural and attractive city of south-east Asia) are also planned. Each of the three positions will be fully funded during the three years of the PhD, with standard French salaries.
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Applications should be sent to benoit.cottereau@cnrs.fr, including a CV and 2 names of references.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:11pt">****************************************************************************************************</span><br>
</span><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:11pt">Benoit R. Cottereau, PhD, HDR,
</span>CNRS Research director (DR2) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">at the Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo, CNRS, UMR 5549, Toulouse):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black"><a href="http://cerco.cnrs.fr/page-benoit-cottereau/" id="LPNoLP" title="Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">http://cerco.cnrs.fr/page-benoit-cottereau/</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Director of the SV3M team (Spatial Vision in Man, Monkey and Machine):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black"><a href="http://cerco.cnrs.fr/en/sv3m-spatial-vision-in-man-monkey-machine/" id="LPNoLP"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">http://cerco.cnrs.fr/en/sv3m-spatial-vision-in-man-monkey-machine/</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Supervisor of the Integrative Neurosciences master program of Toulouse III University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11pt">e-mail: benoit.cottereau@cnrs.fr</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11pt">phone: (+33)-5-62744520</span></span></p>
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