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Two open postdoc positions.

Postdoc · Role 1

Diffusion world models for psychiatry

What you'd work on

Building diffusion world models for psychiatry: generative models that capture the joint dynamics of brain activity, facial video, and language over a course of treatment, and use them to reason about treatment counterfactuals.

Qualifications

  • PhD in CS, ML, applied math, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experience with generative or sequence models (diffusion, world models, transformers) and large multimodal datasets.
  • Strong Python and modern deep-learning frameworks (PyTorch).
  • Genuine interest in clinical psychiatric questions, not just methods.

Postdoc · Role 2

Interventional generative twins for neurostimulation

What you'd work on

Building interventional generative twins for neurostimulation: patient-specific models that predict how an individual's brain responds to stimulation, and turn those predictions into personalized, closed-loop TMS.

Qualifications

  • PhD in computational neuroscience, ML, biomedical engineering, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experience with neural or clinical data (high-density EEG, fMRI, or electrophysiology); TMS or closed-loop stimulation a plus.
  • Ideally, an interest in neural operator design for inverse problems.
  • Strong Python and PyTorch, and an interest in translating models into clinical intervention.

What working here looks like

  • Collaborations across Weill Cornell Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Engineering. Access to clinical cohorts and TMS-EEG infrastructure.
  • Lab alumni have gone to faculty positions and to roles at Anthropic, Nvidia, BCG, and top PhD/MD programs. See where alumni went.
  • Funded by NIMH, NIH ORIP, Simons, Whitehall, Wellcome Leap, and others. See our software and publications for the kind of work.
  • Mentorship aimed at your career: first-author papers, conference funding, and grant-writing support.

How to apply

Email the lab coordinator, not the PI.

Applications go to Jordan Serrano-Guedea, the lab coordinator, at jas4060@med.cornell.edu. Please include your CV, a short note about which role you're applying for and what you'd like to work on, one or two representative papers, and an available start date.

Email the lab coordinator