Research Assistant- Visual Information Sampling in Berlin bei Science of Intelligence

Technische Universität Berlin offers an open position:

Research Assistant - salary grade E13 TV-L Berliner Hochschulen
under the reserve that funds are granted; part-time employment may be possible

Possibly with the option to extend until 30.04.2027

Faculty IV - Institute of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science / Neural Information Processing

Reference number: IV-790/23 (starting at 01/05/24 / until 31/12/25 closing date for applications 18/01/24)

Working field:
This position is part of an interdisciplinary project between psychology, computational neuroscience, and computer vision. The successful candidate will conduct model-based data analyses of human behavioral and eye-tracking data and will perform the computational modelling of eye-movement patterns with help of the ScanDy saccade prediction framework. Investigations will address the relationship between task, gaze behavior, and scene memorization when inspecting dynamic scenes as well as the mechanisms and functional consequences of inter-individual differences in human visual sampling strategies. The possibility of a doctorate is given.

Requirements:
Successfully completed university degree (Master, Diplom or equivalent) in Computational Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, or related fields. Applicants should have very good programming skills, Good knowledge of German and/or English required; willingness to acquire the respective missing language skills, a solid mathematical background, competence in machine leaming, and a strong interest in visual perception. Working experience in the field
of computational neuroscience and an additional background in psychology and / or neuroscience is an advantage.

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