Panel Feb 6-Optimizing the Postdoc-Advisor Relationship- REMINDER - 4 pm in 46-3002

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

*Optimizing the Postdoc-Advisor Relationship: Advice from Faculty & 
Postdocs **REMINDER*

Date and Time: T*uesday, Feb.6, 2018 from 4-5:30 pm *

Location: Singleton Auditorium, Building *46-3002*

Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research

*Register here <https://goo.gl/forms/IHArQN81ZaEPxKog1> *

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Learn from faculty members and fellow postdocs how to maximize the 
mentor-mentee relationship during the postdoctoral period and beyond. A 
postdoc is "engaged in a temporary and defined period of mentored 
advanced training to enhance the professional skills and research 
independence needed to pursue his or her chosen career path," per NIH. 
How can you help ensure that your supervision and mentoring are as 
productive as possible? How can you be an effective mentor throughout 
your career? In this panel, seasoned postdocs and dedicated faculty will 
share their experience and perspective. Audience members will have the 
opportunity to ask questions and seek advice from the panel. MIT 
postdocs, graduate students, and other MIT community members are welcome.

*Panelists: *

Nancy Kanwisher, Walter A Rosenblith Professor, Department of Brain and 
Cognitive Sciences

Wasifa Jamal, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Brain and Cognitive 
Sciences

Francisco Martinez, Research Scientist, Department of Civil and 
Environmental Engineering (formerly a postdoc)

Nir N. Shavit, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering

*Moderator:*

Bob Dolan, Assistant Director, Career Services, MIT Postdoctoral Scholars

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*Panelists' Biographies:*

*Professor Nancy Kanwisher* received her B.S. in biology and Ph.D. in 
cognitive psychology from MIT. After a postdoc as a MacArthur Fellow in 
Peace and International Security, she held faculty positions at UCLA and 
then Harvard, before returning to MIT in 1997, where she is now an 
Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a faculty 
member in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and a member of 
the Center for Minds, Brains, and Machines. Kanwisher’s work uses brain 
imaging to discover the functional organization of the human brain as a 
window into the architecture of the mind. Kanwisher has received the 
Troland Award, the Golden Brain Award, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow 
teaching Award from MIT, and a NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. She is a 
member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of 
Arts and Sciences. You can view her short lectures about human cognitive 
neuroscience for lay audiences at www.nancysbraintalks.mit.edu 
<http://www.nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/>. Dr. Kanwisher also received the 
MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences Community’s 2015 Outstanding Postdoc 
Mentor Award.

*Dr. Wasifa Jamal* is a Postdoctoral Associate in MIT’s Department of 
Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) Her research interests include signal 
processing, machine learning, computational neuroscience science, 
complex networks, and statistical analysis. She received her PhD in 
Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of 
Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science, UK, in 2015. 
She served as the MIT PDA president from 2015-2016 and was also co-chair 
of the BCS building 46 postdoc community in 2015-16. She is actively 
involved in the fundraising committees of various charitable organizations.

*Dr. Francisco Martinez* is a Research Scientist in MIT’s Department of 
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), working with Professor Markus 
J. Buehler. Prior to this position, he was Postdoctoral Associate in 
CEE, and postdoctoral associate at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 
Brussels, Belgium. He earned his MSc in Chemical Engineering and his PhD 
in Chemistry at University of Granada (Spain). Dr. Martinez is also a 
member of the advisory board of Sweetwater Energy, vice-president of the 
Association of Spanish Scientists in the US (ECUSA), and former 
president of the Spanish Federation of Chemical Engineers (FEIQ). His 
research integrates bio-inspiration and multi-scale material modeling 
with process engineering and waste reutilization.

*Professor Nir Shavit* received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer 
Science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1984 and 
1986, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of 
Jerusalem in 1990. Shavit is a co-author of the book The Art of 
Multiprocessor Programming. He is a recipient of the 2004 Gödel Prize in 
theoretical computer science for his work on applying tools from 
algebraic topology to model shared memory computability and of the 2012 
Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for the introduction of Software 
Transactional Memory. He is an ACM fellow. His current research covers 
techniques for designing scalable software for multiprocessors, in 
particular concurrent data structures for multicore machines. Professor 
Shavit is also the faculty coordinator for Postdoc6, a program to help 
postdocs develop leadership, teamwork, and other skills.

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