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Embracing varying opinions and perspectives strengthens our core values which are: Respect, Excellence, Leadership, Loyalty, Integrity, and Selfless Service.\nWho we are\nAs one of the fastest-growing academic health centers in the nation, Texas A&M Health encompasses five colleges and numerous centers and institutes working together to improve health through transformative education, innovative research and team-based health care delivery.\nWhat we want \n The Papageorgiou Laboratory at the Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine (EnMed) develops individualized, AI-guided, real-time fMRI neuromodulation (iNM) technologies for precision neurorehabilitation. The laboratory's goal is to restore sensorimotor and cognitive function in patients affected by cancer treatment, neurologic injury, and neurodegenerative disease by translating each patient's anatomical and functional brain network (neurofunctional twin) into closed-loop interventions that adapt in real time.\nThe Postdoctoral Research Associate, under general supervision, is responsible for conducting research into their field of expertise. The Postdoctoral Research Associate will utilize their advanced computational, software engineering, and systems engineering expertise to advance an existing closed-loop iNM platform. The work covers computational architecture, software interfaces, real-time data processing, visualization, hardware-software integration, system reliability, and performance monitoring. This role integrates electrical engineering, neuroengineering, computational neuroscience, and biomedical imaging.\nResponsibilities:\nResearch/Data Analysis\nOptimize and maintain a real-time closed-loop fMRI neuromodulation platform.\nDevelop and modify software interfaces for fMRI-based real-time applications.\nImprove graphical and user interfaces used for participant-facing neuromodulation displays.\nMaintain and troubleshoot real-time pipelines for data acquisition, preprocessing, signal extraction, filtering (e.g., exponential moving average, Kalman), analysis, closed-loop output generation and real-time display updating, visualization, and logging.\nIntegrate software with imaging systems, workstations, networked data streams, displays, and experimental hardware. Develop timing, synchronization, queueing, latency, and overrun-management strategies to keep updates on schedule at each repetition time (TR).\nImplement structured logging and diagnostic approaches to detect missed data, dropped samples, timing drift, and processing failures.\nApply the Papageorgiou Lab’s computational pipeline, such as signal processing, machine learning, dimensionality reduction, classification, state-space and hidden Markov modeling, and network-level analysis.\nDevelop validation and regression-testing procedures to confirm that the software continues to perform correctly after each change.\nSupport MRI scanning sessions with human participants.\nTraining/Laboratory Coordination\nMay assist, mentor, collaborate, and/or supervise student researchers and/or graduate students and/or medical students, who are working on research related to the project.\nCollaborate with clinicians, neuroscientists, engineers, imaging scientists, and computational researchers.\nContribute to manuscripts, presentations, documentation, and grant-related research.\nPrepare presentation materials on research topic that may be presented to small and/or large groups.\nActively participate in the preparation of required technical progress reports to research sponsors.\nOther duties as assigned\nQualifications:\nRequired Education\nPh.D. or equivalent doctoral degree iin Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Medical Physics, or a closely related quantitative discipline.\nRequired Licenses and Certifications\nCompletion of human-subjects research (CITI) and MRI safety training is required within 30 days of hire.\nPreferred Qualifications\nThree years of experience with real-time systems; hardware-software interfaces; MRI/fMRI acquisition or analysis\nExperience developing, evaluating, or troubleshooting computational or engineering systems through doctoral research or equivalent advanced training.\nExperience with scientific programming and quantitative data analysis, shown by first-author publications or equivalent work products.\nA demonstrated record of self-motivation, independent problem-solving, and sustained commitment to complex projects.\nKnowledge of: MRI neurofeedback, brain-computer interfaces, or closed-loop biomedical systems; AFNI, FSL, SPM, Turbo-BrainVoyager, or related neuroimaging software; Siemens real-time data export; event-driven, asynchronous, multithreaded, multiprocessing architectures; real-time signal processing; network communication or inter-process communication; hardware triggering or instrumentation; GPU or parallel computing; machine learning; functional connectivity or network analysis; and research software used for human fMRI experiments\nKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities\nAdvanced programming skills in Python, MATLAB, C/C++, or related languages.\nStrong knowledge of software engineering practices including debugging, testing, version control, documentation, configuration management, and reproducibility.\nUnderstanding of real-time systems concepts including latency, synchronization, timing drift, buffering, dropped data, and failure recovery.\nKnowledge of Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting.\nStrong quantitative reasoning, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to translate scientific and engineering requirements into computational solutions.\nAbility to work independently while collaborating effectively within a multidisciplinary team.\nKnowledge of data privacy and secure handling of human-subjects’ data.\nAttention to detail\nWhy Texas A&M University?\nWe are a prestigious university with strong traditions, Core Values, and a community of caring and collaboration.\nMedical,prescription drug,dental,vision,life and AD&D,flexible spending accounts, and long-term disability insurance with Texas A&M contributing to employee health and basic life premiums \n12-15 days of annual paid holidays \nUp to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month \nAutomatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas\nHealth and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time\nProfessional Development: All employees have access to free LinkedIn Learning training, webinars, and limited financial support to attend conferences, workshops, and more \nEducational release time and tuition assistance for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee \nLiving Well, a program at Texas A&M that has been built by employees, for employees \nInstructions to Applicants: Applications received by Texas A&M University must either have all job application data entered, or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.\nAll positions are security-sensitive. 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