{"coupon":"","discount":"","doc_name":"Cover Letter (postdoc)","doc_id":67626,"editorId":"65","email":"stahn@gist.ac.kr","message":"Subject: Applying for a postdoctoral position<br \/><br \/>I am writing to apply for a position of postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Anthony Hudetz&rsquo;s laboratory in the Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I am currently a doctoral candidate at the Gwangju Institute of Science Technology, and expect to complete my degree requirements by late August, 2016. I would like to contribute my background and knowledge to your laboratory to focus on investigating functional and effective connectivity dynamics during different states of consciousness as modulated by various types of anesthetic agents.<br \/><br \/>My academic background is in electrical engineering and computer science and I have studied on biomedical engineering using EEG\/MEG\/fNIRS\/fMRI by utilizing machine learning, pattern recognition, source localization and advanced signal processing techniques. My doctoral dissertation is dynamic utilization of neuroimaging signal for brain-computer interface (BCI). Recently, I have focused on investigating effects of external stimulation such as auditory and transcranial direct current stimulation based on sleep stages. My final goal of this study is finding an optimal stimulation (intensity or duration) according to varying sleep stage. Based on each sleep stage, I attempted to apply several stimulations to subjects during sleep and estimated the quality of sleep using their EEG or fMRI data. Furthermore, I have focused on developing novel index for depth of anesthesia. Until now, bispectral index (BIS) has been widely used to monitor and determine depth of anesthesia. In my study, however, I calculated functional connectivity in source space using EEG and I found that its significant connections between frontal and parietal lobe were disappeared in case of anesthesia. Its preliminary results were submitted to sfn2016 and deep investigation is still in progress.<br \/><br \/>I believe my current research interest and skills are closely related to your work and I would like to participate in your group as postdoctoral fellow for deep investigation.<br \/><br \/>For more details of my research background, I am enclosing my curriculum vitae as a .pdf file. Please contact me for additional materials and information.","price_select":"1","temp_doc_name":"upload_57459f6647ad06.41511180.doc","word_count":"329","subtotal":8.88,"total_amt":8.88,"firstName":"Sangtae","lastName":"Ahn","lastfour":"7671","exp":"0317","address":"123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwagnju","city":"Gwagnju","zip":"61005","state":"Gwagnju","country":"Korea, Republic of (South Korea)","transactionReference":"8437072478"}