Mentor Areas
Dr. Litt's laboratory focuses on translating NeuroEngineering research directly into patient care through a collaboration between Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, Psychology, and Engineering. While epilepsy is the lab's core focus, its multidisciplinary efforts span a variety of scientific and clinical interests including functional neurosurgery, network and computational neuroscience, movement disorders, intra-operative and ICU monitoring, and other brain network disorders. Specific areas of focus include automated implantable devices, understanding how seizures begin and spread, interpreting multi-scale neurosignals through machine learning, mapping functional networks and circuits in human brain, recording oscillations and modulating them via computer controlled electrical stimulation, and novel electronics technology for high fidelity electrophysiologic recording and brain modulation Dr. Litt is active as an active clinician, medical entrepreneur and inventor.
Description:
Projects will vary, but will consist of a summer internship with the possibility of continuing the project during the academic year for a very limited number of students.
Preferred Qualifications
Dr. Litt works with a select number of undergraduate students during the summer and he occasionally mentors exceptional undergraduate students during the academic year. Typically the students are juniors or seniors because of the required skill level. He will consider working with a Senior Design team only if the project is highly correlated with his research and the team is very organized and academically strong.
BE, CIS and EE majors with strong computational and programming skills are preferred. Experience with MatLab required, and experience with other programming languages such as Java and R is a plus.
Individuals should be self-motivated and able to work well independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary research environment.
Project Website
Learn more about the researcher and/or the project here. Litt Lab
Details:
Preferred Student Year
Second-Year, Junior, Senior
Academic Term
Fall, Spring, Summer
I prefer to have students start during the above term(s).Volunteer
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to volunteers.Paid
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to paying students they engage in their research, regardless of their work-study eligibility.Work Study
Yes
Yes indicates that faculty are open to hiring work-study-eligible students.