Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
B.S., Department of Mechanical Engineering, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland

Honors and Awards:

• Rising Stars in Electrical Engineering, 2019
• Rising Stars in Biomedical Engineering, 2018
• Honoree of the Graduate Women of Excellence Award, MIT, 2017

Shreya Saxena is as an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. At UF, she is affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the Warren B. Nelms Insititute for the Connected World and the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases.

Before this, Shreya was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University, working with Liam Paninski and John Cunningham. Here, she was affiliated with the Department of Statistics, and being generously funded by the Postdoc Mobility Fellowship offered by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Shreya completed her PhD in the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Techonology, working with Munther Dahleh in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Prior to this, she received an MSc from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, working with Sridevi V. Sarma. She did her undergraduate degree at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.