Three (3) PhD Positions, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (2016)

Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e, www.tue.nl), founded in 1956, is a world-leading research university specializing in engineering science & technology. The Department of Electrical Engineering is responsible for research and education in Electrical Engineering. The TU/e is the world's best-performing research university in terms of research cooperation with industry (#1 since 2009). Eindhoven is also the world's most innovative city with the highest number of patents per resident.

PhD positions in the BrainWave project (brain-wave.nl/)
Brain-related diseases, such as epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease (PD), are severely degrading people's quality of life. Few of the disease cases can be cured by medication alone. Many patients have to go to specialized hospitals to receive continuous monitoring of their electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, which is costly and impacts patient's well-being. Current EEG sensing and processing platforms used in advanced hospitals are bulky and wired to the patient's head. The used equipment is also power hungry and not self-sustainable, thereby far from being wearable, prohibiting continuous monitoring. A solution is urgently needed to help these patients and raise their quality of life.

In this BrainWave project, we research and develop a wearable brainwave processing platform enabling 24/7 healthcare of epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease patients in non-hospital environments. Its key contribution is a novel brainwave processor which will analyze and interpret the EEG signals that are collected non-invasively by a multi-channel sensor interface. Ultra-low-power, on-chip context-aware and patient-specific signal processing together with features such as data logging and cloud connection will make this brainwave processing platform really wearable and suitable for non-hospital environments.

In this project, the Electronic Systems (ES) group at TU/e collaborates with the Signal Processing System (SPS) group at TU/e, Kempenhaeghe, and the Donders Institute at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Two of our industrial partners NXP and TMSi will be heavily involved in the chip and system development as well. Three PhD students will be involved in this project. The first PhD student is in charge of signal processing algorithm development, who will be supervised by professors from the TU/e SPS group, Kempenhaeghe, and Donders Institute. The TU/e ES group is in charge of supervising the other two PhD students.
The three opening positions are:

- PhD 1: specifies and defines the brainwave processing algorithms and apply the brainwave platform to epilepsy and Parkinson's Disease patients.
- PhD 2: focusses on ultra-low-power architectural innovations for mapping the new brainwave processing algorithms.
- PhD 3: student researches new ultra-low-power circuit-level implementation methods and the process technology interface.

PhD1 will be supervised by Prof. dr. Richard van Wezel, Prof. dr. Johan Arends and Dr. Mike Cohen. PhD2 and PhD3 will be supervised by Prof. dr. Henk Corporaal, Prof. dr. José Pineda de Gyvez and Dr. Hailong Jiao.

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