Neuro Data & Modeling Assistant II (Part-Time)

New York State Psychiatry Institute; New York (NY); On-site; USD 29,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene is seeking a part-time Research Support Assistant II to assist in preprocessing neural and serotonin signals and to support computational analyses.

Responsibilities include implementing and validating multivariate Hidden Markov Models, Representational Similarity Analysis, and linear decoding with permutation testing; the role offers exposure to preclinical brain research and publication-quality figures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science and/or information technology.
• At least 1 year experience with Python and MATLAB.
• At least 1 year experience analyzing time series signals.
• At least 1 year experience with probabilistic classification models in NumPy, SciPy, and SciKit-learn.

Responsibilities

• Preprocessing and normalization of simultaneous neural activity and serotonin signals.
• Implementing and validating three computational analyses: multivariate Hidden Markov Models, Representational Similarity Analysis, and linear decoding with permutation testing.
• Extracting per-animal metrics for group-level statistical comparison.
• Generating publication-quality figures.

Skills

Python

MATLAB

Time-series analysis

Probabilistic modeling

Representational similarity analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in science and/or information technology

Tools

NumPy

SciPy

SciKit-learn

Job description

The Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene is seeking a part-time Research Support Assistant II to assist in preprocessing neural and serotonin signals and to support computational analyses.

Responsibilities include implementing and validating multivariate Hidden Markov Models, Representational Similarity Analysis, and linear decoding with permutation testing; the role offers exposure to preclinical brain research and publication-quality figures.