Shreya Saxena
Assistant Professor
General Information
Full Name | Shreya Saxena |
shreya.saxena@yale.edu | |
Current Affiliation | Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering |
Secondary Affiliation | Department of Electrical Engineering |
Member | Institute for Foundations of Data Science |
Office | Office 1124, Center for Neurocomputation and Machine Intelligence, Wu Tsai Institute |
Address | 100 College Street, New Haven, CT 06510 |
Education
- 2017 – 2020
Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Columbia University
- Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
- Research Advisors: Liam Paninski and John Cunningham
- 2011 – 2017
PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems
- Research Advisor: Munther Dahleh
- 2009 - 2011
MSc in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
- Research Advisor: Sridevi V. Sarma
- 2006 - 2009
BSc in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Experience
- 2023 - Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Yale University
- 2020 - 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Florida
Teaching Experience
- 2023
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University
- Taught course "Seminars in Biomedical Engineering".
- 2021, 2023
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida
- Designed and taught course “Neuro-AI, Neuroscience meets Artificial Intelligence”.
- 2022
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida
- Taught course "Data Science for ECE".
- 2021
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida
- Guest Lecturer for the course “Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence”.
- 2018 - 2019
Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University
- Guest Lecturer for the course “Advanced Theoretical Neuroscience” in Spring 2018 and 2019.
- 2015 – 2016
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, MIT
- Recitation Instructor for the course “Digital Communication Systems” in Fall 2016.
- Teaching Assistant for the course “Digital Communication Systems” in Fall 2015.
Honors and Awards
- 2019
- Rising Stars in Electrical Engineering, UIUC
- 2018
- Rising Stars in Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
- 2017
- Graduate Women of Excellence Award, MIT
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Making cocktails, running, raising a kid and a cat.