Shashwati is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Movement Sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). She has a secondary faculty appointment in Biomedical Engineering at UTEP.

Shashwati is a licensed Physical Therapist and a PhD in Motor control, Neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2014). Following her PhD, she completed postdoctoral training with (late) Dr. Alexander Dromerick (2015-2020) and with co-mentors Drs. Peter S Lum (Catholic University of America) and Michelle L Harris-Love (Georgetown) at the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital. As a postdoctoral fellow, she was supported by a national American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship, a GHUCCTS TL1 postdoctoral fellowship,  a NINDS StrokeNet postdoc fellowship, and an Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) postdoctoral fellowship through the National Institutes of Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). 

Before starting at UTEP, Shashwati was the recipient of an NIH Career Development Award (K12HD093427, Neurorehabilitation and Restorative Neurosciences Training Network)  as a research-track assistant professor in Rehabilitation Medicine at the Georgetown University in Washington, DC (2020-2023).