Rohit Ravi — AI, philosophy, and the science of mind. · Data Science (Philosophy minor) at New York University

Hi, I'm Rohit.

  • Data Science @ NYU · Philosophy minor
  • Research: connectomics, neural-symbolic reasoning, consciousness

About Me

I'm a Data Science major at NYU (Philosophy minor), working at the intersection of deep learning, computational neuroscience, and philosophy of mind.

Current research: a multi-modal study of the C. elegans connectome asking how much of local wiring is determined by topology vs. gene expression, and neural-symbolic prototypes for reasoning systems that sit between pure neural and pure symbolic methods.

I like small nervous systems, interpretability, and arguments that can lose.

More on Projects, Experience, and Certifications.

Projects

Where is the 'blueprint' in the C. elegans connectome?

A worm's genome is far too small to store its ~7,000 wiring connections one by one — yet the wiring is nearly the same in every animal. So where is the information that specifies it? This is the log of a systematic hunt: a dozen candidate 'hidden codes' tested and ruled out, and the surprisingly simple thing that was left standing.

Jun 30, 2026

Tier4 Substrate Anatomy — a whole-cell electrical substrate, rendered from code

An interactive 3D anatomy of the C. elegans Tier4 whole-cell electrical substrate. Every channel, receptor, pump, transporter, gap junction, and ion compartment actually present in the Brian2 model is rendered 1:1 from code with an honest ON / default-OFF / ORPHANED / NOT-INTEGRATED status.

Jun 18, 2026

Antibiotic Resistance — Mutation Trajectory Prediction

Predicting the next resistance mutation given an ordered evolution history, over ALEdb plus CARD plus deep mutational scanning data. A LightGBM + autoregressive transformer + reranker stack lifts canonical-AMR top-3 from 0.17 to 0.403 across 14 drug classes.

May 11, 2026

“Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached. — Swami Vivekananda”

Education & Certificates

Education

  • B.A. Data Science (Philosophy minor) · New York University

Coursework

  • Advanced Topics in Data Science (DS-UA 301) · NYU

Certification

  • Computational Neuroscience · University of Washington
  • Mind and Machine · CU Boulder
  • Meta Data Analyst · Meta · 5 courses
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Independent Research

  • C. elegans Connectomics & Transcriptomics
  • Neural-Symbolic Reasoning (HSDE)

Experiences

Competitor — ARC Prize 2025

ARC Prize · François Chollet

Oct 2025 - Present

Competitor — NeurIPS Open Polymer Prediction

Kaggle · NeurIPS 2025

Jun 2025 - Sep 2025

Competitor — Stanford RNA 3D Folding

Kaggle · Stanford University

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Blog Posts

First posts coming soon.

Reading List

I love to read across many different topics. Here is a selection of my favorite works, across disciplines, and my perspective on each of them.

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