Postdoctoral Fellowship: Control and Estimation for the Artificial Pancreas : Montreal, Canada

The Department of Biomedical Engineering at McGill University is seeking outstanding candidates for a Postdoc position. The successful candidate will develop a learning algorithm for an electromechanical artificial pancreas in type 1 diabetes. The artificial pancreas is a closed-loop system to regulate glucose levels. A model predictive control is already in place and has been extensively tested in human clinical trials, but it requires further development to handle more efficiently slow changes in insulin needs over time. The successful candidate will develop and implement a learning algorithm based on recursive state estimation methods, conduct extensive simulations, and lead the design and the conduction of a clinical trial to test their algorithm.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with a multi-disciplinary team that includes researchers with backgrounds of endocrinology, control engineering, biomedical engineering, pediatrics, and computer science. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated applicant who wants to utilize their expertise in control systems to tackle medical problems.

Desired Skills:
- Strong expertise in system control design, preferably in adaptive control or model predictive control. Desired expertise includes estimation algorithms, observers, Kalman filtering, and Bayesian estimation.
- Strong desire to work in a clinical setting.
- Strong programming skills.