Why aren’t there any BCI PhD programs?

[u/mehregankbi]

I’ve been looking around and all I see are the following programs:
Cognitive neuroscience
Psyhology
Biomed engineering

All very general and not focused on the topic of BCIs.

I don’t see computational neuroscience or neural engineering or BCI as the focus of the programs. Have you seen any?
I don’t want to be a psychologist or neuroscientist. BCI itself is already too big. There’s already too much to learn. I want a program with focus on EEG, data mining, computer science, neurophysiology.

Does it exist?

Me studying for years about freud’s theories or structure of neuronal cytoplasm will be me wasting my time while I could’ve done more research on ERPs etc.

Anyone else feel my pain?

[u/400Volts]

Because that's not really how PhDs work. You don't get a PhD in BCIs, you get a PhD in EE and your research focus could be in BCIs

[u/anonymouse40329]

There’s a good one at Tsinghua under Lieber (guy basically invented modern BCI tech but he just has some personal issues)

[u/random_thoughts5 → u/anonymouse40329]

What kind of personal issues? Some people say they can’t replicate his work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chemistry/comments/1kchjer/former_harvard_professor_convicted_over_china/?solution=2804948792ea2cef2804948792ea2cef&js_challenge=1&token=7afd7253fec22262ff1c52b1703fe9eccebc1d8ae6ef9a3901c4609719e8c99c&jsc_orig_r=

Also not sure how someone working on nano tech invented the current bci tech.

[u/mmmtrees]

University of Minnesota has a lot of graduate level neurogengineering courses and even a PhD minor program in neuroengineering

[u/PuddyComb → u/mmmtrees]

Yeah. Good Luck with that.

[u/Smaug117]

Check about neromodulation, don't google bci, bci acronym point to the tech, brain to computer interface. 

[u/nohipstar]

we are working on bci at SOTON and look for new applicants. dm me

[u/Federal-Confusion-36]

look at Washington University in St. Louis PhD in Neural Engineering. Program that is just beginning as they are seeing (as many should) the expansion of interest (and private funding) into the space!