Elaida Dimwamwa, Ph.D.

Elaida Dimwamwa is a postdoctoral fellow at New York University working in the Schneider lab. She earned her bachelor’s in bioengineering and her master’s in robotics, both from the University of Pennsylvania, before earning her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the joint program at Georgia Tech and Emory University. While studying sensory processing under Garrett Stanley, she developed her passion for understanding the neural computations underlying the complexities of the human experience and our perception of the world.

In the Schneider lab, Dimwamwa is studying the neural computations underlying the perception of self-generated versus externally generated sounds, with long-term goals of studying how those same computations go awry in neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and autism.