Shreya Saxena, PhD

Shreya Saxena is broadly interested in the neural control of complex, coordinated behavior. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and an Investigator at the Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence at the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University. Before this, she was at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor from October 2020 to June 2023. During Shreya’s postdoctoral research at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, she developed machine learning methods for interpretable modeling of neural and behavioral data. Her PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) dealt with performance limitations in sensorimotor control. Shreya received an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She is honored to have been selected as a 2025 Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, and a Rising Star in both Electrical Engineering (2019) and Biomedical Engineering (2018).