Ann Kennedy is a theoretical neuroscientist interested in the neural control of complex and behavior. After receiving an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University, she pursued her PhD at Columbia University, where she modelled information representation and learning in cerebellum-like structures. She then pursued postdoctoral training with Dr. David Anderson at California Institute of Technology, where she modeled hypothalamic control of social and fear behaviors, and developed tools for automated classification of social behaviors in mice. She joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 2020, where her lab uses methods from dynamical systems, control theory and machine learning to study how biological neural networks can produce and modify the expression of complex behaviors. She continues to apply methods from machine learning to characterize the structure of animal behavior and to explore how that structure is modified by past experiences, external stressors or neurological diseases and disorders.