Shenoy obtained a
B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from
UC Irvine (1987–1990) and a
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from
MIT (1990–1995). He was then a postdoctoral fellow in Neurobiology at
Caltech (1995–2001). In 2001, Shenoy joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at
Stanford University as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2008, and then to full professor in 2012. In 2017 he was appointed as the inaugural Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor (
endowed chair). and the Bio-X Institute. He was the Director of Stanford's Neural Prosthetic Systems Laboratory and the co-director of the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory at Stanford University. Within these positions, he aimed to restore
motor function to
paralyzed individuals. In 2015 Shenoy became an investigator with the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Shenoy and his team made fundamental discoveries about how the brain encodes and executes motor commands, applying those insights to improving
brain-computer interfaces. To this end, they developed a mathematical framework for analyzing neural activity called 'computation through dynamics'. In 2022 Shenoy was elected member of the
National Academy of Medicine "
For making seminal contributions both to basic neuroscience and to translational and clinical research. His work has shown how networks of motor cortical neurons operate as dynamical systems, and he has developed new technologies to provide new means of restoring movement and communication to people with paralysis." In 2022 he was also elected as a Fellow of the
IEEE "
For contributions to cortical control of movement and brain-computer interfaces." ==Patents==