Research Assistant

Role Overview & Responsibilities

The UK DRI is seeking a Research Assistant to join the Bioelectronics Group within the Care Research & Technology Centre and Next Generation Neural Interfaces (NGNI) lab at Imperial College London. As a Research Assistant in the lab, you will join a collaborative and highly skilled team, developing and investigating how remote sensing with radar can be applied at home to gain new insights and improve care for people living with dementia (PLWD). You will be developing new algorithms and software methods for processing and interpreting radar data as well as planning, conducting, and evaluating validation trials. This will be in support of translational efforts to deploy and upscale use of our technology in the homes of PLWD.
Duties and responsibilities

Research Duties:
To develop new algorithms and software methods for processing and interpreting radar data

To plan, conduct, and evaluate validation trials in cohorts of healthy participants, and cohorts of participants with neurodegenerative conditions (e.g. mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, etc).

To support translational efforts to deploy and upscale use of our technology in home settings.

To assist with the analysis of data

To ensure the validity and reliability of data at all times

To maintain accurate and complete records of all findings

Essential requirements

A first / masters degree (or equivalent) in electronic or biomedical engineering

Experience working with ultra-wideband radar and interpreting related data

Experience conducting validation trials with human participants

Previous experience in a research laboratory environment

Ability to conduct a detailed review of recent literature

Documents

Research Assistant.pdf