A PhD research assistantship in visualization and computational topology of biomedical data is available in the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University under the supervision of Brian Summa and Carola Wenk, part of the NSF-funded project "Quantifying Morphologic Phenotypes in Prostate Cancer - Developing Topological Descriptors for Machine Learning Algorithms". See here for more information on the project:
http://www.cs.tulane.edu/~carola/research/qubbd.html

This is an interdisciplinary project including faculty and students from Tulane University and Montana State University in the areas of Mathematics, Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Pathology.

The focus of this PhD research assistantship is on the visualization and high-performance computing aspects of topological descriptors computed on gigapixel image data. This research assistantship is for three years of the typically 5-year PhD program in Computer Science, starting in Fall 2018.

For more information and to apply please contact Brian Summa (bsumma@tulane.edu) or Carola Wenk (cwenk@tulane.edu). See here for more information and application instructions for Tulane's Computer Science PhD program: http://www2.tulane.edu/sse/cs/academics/graduate/