Shatakshi Goyal is a Research Assistant at the Brain Dynamics Lab at Stanford University, where she bridges engineering and cognitive science to study how the brain adapts to complex environments. She holds a B.Tech. in Electrical & Computer Engineering (Summa Cum Laude, Applied Mathematics minor) from Boise State University and a Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology in Context from Vanderbilt University. Her work has been recognized with the Barry Goldwater National Scholarship and national honors from Eta Kappa Nu.

Previously, Shatakshi was a Firmware Development Engineer and Systems Improvement Lead at Hewlett Packard. She has since leveraged her engineering background to design real-time interactive systems, data pipelines, and computer vision workflows—such as the Segment Anything Model (SAMURAI)—to decode behavioral and cognitive processes. Outside of her primary research, she directs an institute dedicated to psychotherapeutic movement.