Postdoc Position in Lower Limb Prosthesis Control at the UNC/NC State Joint BME Department
The Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (NREL) within the UNC/NC State Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associates to advance lower-limb robotic prosthetics control.
Required Qualifications
1. A recent Ph.D. degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical Engineering or related fields.
2. Research experiences in one or more of the following areas: optimal adaptive control, fault tolerance control, reinforcement learning, signal processing and machine learning,
3. Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Additional Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in human-related experiments, human motor control and learning, design and control of assistive devices, embedded system design, mobile app development, and musculoskeletal modeling.
- Programming skills (MATLAB, C++, LabVIEW etc.)
- Record of peer-reviewed publications
Interested candidates are encouraged to submit curriculum vitae, a 1-page research statement, selected publications, and three references. To learn more about our research or to submit an application, please contact Dr. Helen Huang at nrel.ncsu@gmail.com
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