Rachel Swanson
Senior Research Fellow
Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow in the Saxe Lab at the Sainsbury Wellcome Center, where she uses both experimental and theoretical tools to further our understanding of learning in biological and artificial systems, with an emphasis on porting insights from sleep function into artificial neural networks.
Rachel earned her Ph.D. from NYU in 2023 in the labs of Gyorgy Buzsaki and Jayeeta Basu, with support from the NSF GRFP, and her Masters degree at Cornell University in the lab of David Smith.