Dr. Shreya Saxena

Biography

Shreya Saxena is broadly interested in neural control of complex, coordinated behavior. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a core member of the Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence at the Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University. Prior to her current position, she served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2020 to 2023. Shreya completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University's Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, focusing on the theoretical aspects of neuroscience. Her Ph.D. was awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied the closed-loop control of fast movements from a control theory perspective. Shreya holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. She has been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Sloan Research Fellowship and honors as a Rising Star in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Her research aims to understand the relationship between neural activity and behavior using constraints-based modeling approaches.

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