University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
Post Doctoral Associate-B.I.O.N.I.C. Lab Bioengineering - Pennsylvania-Pittsburgh - ( 26003843 ) The B.I.O.N.I.C. Lab seeks a Post Doctoral Associate to resolve how intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) and next-generation photoresponsive electrodes evoke specific somatosensory and visual percepts, working across the two grant-aligned threads below. The first thread operationalizes the Bidirectional Translation Framework in Kozai et al., JNE 2026 ("Solving the Problem of Inception"), pairing reverse-translation experiments (ICMS in individuals with spinal cord injury implanted with microelectrode arrays in primary somatosensory cortex during real-time BCI control, with the Gaunt and Collinger groups) with forward-translation experiments in NHP visual cortex (Gharbawie) and mouse visual cortex (Vazquez, Hooks, Kozai), thereby converting human perceptual reports into testable circuit hypotheses and returning optimized stimulation parameters to clinical...