Paid research assistant positions for ECE, BME, ME and Physics students
Undergraduate and MS students, paid hourly. The lab builds noninvasive optical instruments for brain monitoring, from benchtop systems to bedside and wearable devices.
Current projects. Bedside cerebral blood flow monitors based on diffuse correlation spectroscopy and speckle contrast imaging. A portable FPGA based brain monitor for traumatic brain injury. A wearable forehead headband under development for overnight brain monitoring at home. Quantum enabled photon counting with Brookhaven National Laboratory, with time on site at BNL. Laser speckle rheology, a noncontact measurement of tissue viscoelasticity.
Where you fit.
- ECE. Hardware control and data acquisition, analog front ends, PCB design, embedded firmware, FPGA, signal processing.
- BME. Tissue optics and phantoms, instrument validation, human subject measurements, physiological signal analysis, bedside and clinical translation.
- ME. CAD and 3D printing, optomechanics, probe holders and headbands, wearable device design, thermal and structural analysis.
- Physics. Speckle statistics, coherence, photon counting, Monte Carlo photon transport, optical system integration.
Students are matched to a project by interest and join a team of engineers, physicists and clinicians. No one is expected to have every skill listed, and a good senior design or hobby project counts.
Postings as PDF: ECE, ME, Physics. BME students who have strong interests in biomedical imaging and instrumentation apply with the same materials. Stony Brook students can also apply through Handshake under Research Assistant Positions in Optical Imaging Instrumentation.