Scientific Researcher

Scientific Researcher

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To conduct research on the Merkin Bridge Fellowship project. This will involve testing healthy and autistic human participants on a new platform to diagnose autism from eye tracking data. It will involve collecting data, extensive computational analysis of the data, and writing of research publications.

• Help recruit participants and organize participant databases.
• Test participants on eye tracking tasks.
• Organize and tabulate the data.
• Extensive computational analysis and modeling of eye tracking data.
• Organization and writing of research publications.

• Must have a Ph.D. in a field relevant to cognitive neuroscience.
• Must have 5 years of relevant experience.
• Must have extensive expertise in computational modeling, including strong coding skills in Python.
• Strong statistical and mathematics background.

• Merkin Bridge Fellow (named).
• Experience in testing autistic participants.
• Knowledge of AI for use in modeling eye tracking data.

• Resume

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