Ayesha is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. Her research broadly focuses on developing generative models to infer computational principles underlying neural population activity. She is particularly interested in understanding how structured dynamical systems enable rapid learning and flexible multi-task behavior.

Ayesha received her undergraduate degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani, India, in 2018, and a PhD in Neuroscience from the Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal, in 2025. During her PhD, she introduced meta-learning approaches for learning dynamical state space models and unsupervised alignment methods for data-efficient inference of neural dynamics. Her ongoing postdoctoral research builds on this work to develop scalable, interpretable models of neural dynamics that can generalize across tasks and experimental contexts.