Neda Shahidi studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and did her master’s thesis on “Delayed response policies for autonomous intersection management” in the Learning Agents Research Group, supervised by Peter Stone. After working as a research assistant in the labs of Eyal Seidemann and Nicholas Priebe at the University of Texas at Austin and Daniel Felleman at the University of Texas, medical school at Houston, she joined the lab of Valentin Dragoi to complete her PhD on “Population codes and their correlates in decision making” at University of Texas, medical school at Houston. She now joins the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab/Sensorimotor Research Group/Sensorymotor Junior Research Group as a postdoc where she will investigate "Spatial cognition and decision making during social foraging in freely moving monkeys.