She then moved to MIT, where she completed her master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 2006 and her PhD in 2011.
She developed an algorithm to determine where a monkey wanted to point the cursor on a screen based on the animal's brain activity.
More recently, the Shanechi Lab has developed novel methods that can dissociate those dynamics in neural activity that are most predictive of behavior and can significantly improve decoding.
[6][7] Her lab has also developed methods that can simultaneously use multiple spatiotemporal scales of neural measurements to model their relationships and improve decoding.
[19][20] In the future, Shanechi wants to develop these techniques in order to stimulate the brain automatically when a change in mood is detected.