BRAIN / 27 Opportunity Radar
From experimental psychology toward brain science × AI
What it is
A career-and-study radar for people finishing a master’s in 2027, aimed squarely at experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, brain–computer interfaces and brain-inspired AI. Any city.
It covers four kinds of opportunity, ranked by whether they can produce a result within the next 30 days rather than by institutional prestige:
- PhD / joint-training PhD — BAAI joint programmes, open admission at the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Tsinghua’s Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Shanghai AI Lab joint training, the Tianjin University–PolyU Shenzhen Institute of Future Technology, and more
- Research assistant — open to master’s-level applicants, concentrated in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Hong Kong
- Campus recruiting / internships / research posts — including BCI signal processing and decoding, and ML research roles on the health side
Every entry carries its current state (open / expected month / keep watching), direction tags, the next concrete action, and a link to the official source.
Beyond the opportunity list the site also has an advisor radar, recent papers, a research-institution map, source list and collection log.
Why build it
The problem with this information was never that you can’t find it — it’s that it’s scattered and time-boxed: admission notices live on dozens of institutional sites and windows stay open for a few weeks, so by the time you see one it has usually closed. And for someone graduating in 2027, the scarce thing isn’t a list of opportunities but the ordering — what you have to do first for the next thing to be possible at all.
So the radar hands you a shortest path: apply first to university research-assistant posts open to master’s students, accumulate data, papers and references, and prepare the 2027 PhD applications in parallel — rather than carpet-bombing PhD programmes on day one.
How to use it
Open radar.openagent.hk, start with the “act now” entries, then filter by type (PhD / joint training / research assistant / campus recruiting / internship / research post). Each entry has an explicit next action and a source link you can follow directly.
The page is a static snapshot with its collection date in the header — don’t treat it as live data; for anything with a deadline, the official announcement still governs.