<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">New positions at MSc/PhD/Post-Doc level & technical support staff</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Systems neuroscience, human population datasets, and advanced machine learning</span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:21.4667px"></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:15pt;line-height:23px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(62,56,52);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">There is now increasing momentum in data sharing, open access, and data collection consortia that build richly annotated "big data" repositories for brain, behavior, and genes. This unprecedented data richness creates a rapidly growing potential to provide principled answers to human brain organization and its disturbances in brain disease. My lab will take the opportunity to explore, formalize, and predict brain phenotypes of hidden population variation captured across heterogeneous data sources to tackle open questions in systems neuroscience in a way that also paves new ways for precision medicine in brain health. My new research group is dedicated to such interdisciplinary challenges in a domain-agnostic approach (especially high- but also low-level cognitive processes) leveraging several recently emerged population datasets (such as UK Biobank, HCP, CamCAN, ABCD) across levels of observation (brain structure and function, consequences from brain lesion, or common-variant genetics) using a broad toolkit of bioinformatic methods, with a premium on cutting-edge machine-learning algorithms.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> New lab members will have full access to the Mila Artificial Intelligence Institute (see links below).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">What you would work on</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">: Revisit classical questions in systems neuroscience by capitalizing on the largest existing datasets of healthy and clinical human imaging populations using recently emerged machine learning solutions. Improve your data analysis instincts and actionable knowledge of the Python data science stack - a highly transferable skill set increasingly sought-after in both academia and industry.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">What we expect</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">·       </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Outstanding motivation for work on inter-disciplinary challenges</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"></span></p><p c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t-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB">If you are interested, please send an email to danilo(DOT)bzdok(AT)mcgill(DOT)ca with the <b>subject “[newpositions2019]”, </b>including the following <b>3 attachments</b>:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">·       Cover letter describing personal qualifications and motivation for our research areas</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">·       Curriculum vitae including programming experience</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">·       Contact details of two people who we will ask to support your application</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Danilo Bzdok, MD, PhD</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Associate Professor</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Department of Biomedical Engineering</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Montreal Neurological Institute</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Faculty of Medicine</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">McGill University</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Montreal</span><span lang="EN-GB">, Canada</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:9pt;line-height:13.8px"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Faculty Member</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Mila — Quebec Institute for Artificial Intelligence</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;border:none;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Montreal, Canada</span></b></p></div>