Marco Antonio Pinto Orellana

Rochester Institute of Technology is inviting applications for a PhD position in the Computing and Information Sciences program, joining the laboratory of Assistant Professor Marco Antonio Pinto Orellana. The position focuses on computational neuroscience at the intersection of signal processing, statistics and artificial intelligence. The lab develops explainable models of how information flows through the brain across frequency bands and different imaging modalities. The research also examines whether these neural information-flow patterns can serve as biomarkers of cognitive processes and neurological or other brain-related diseases. Students will work with multimodal brain-signal data and computational methods for understanding neural dynamics. The laboratory has its own wireless EEG-fNIRS system, enabling in-house concurrent recordings that combine electroencephalography and functional near-infrared spectroscopy. This provides an environment for research linking brain activity, signal processing, statistical analysis and AI-based modeling. The project is well suited to researchers interested in computational neuroscience, explainable artificial intelligence, brain imaging, signal processing, statistics and cognitive or disease-related biomarkers.