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

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

cfDNA Cancer Detection — A Cross-Cohort Recovery Story

Cell-free DNA methylation cancer detection over the Loyfer atlas. Cross-cohort AUROC on GSE122126 went from 0.217 (below random, model inverted) to 0.850 across four of five cancer types. The four mechanisms that closed the gap, and the literature check that showed they're not novel.

May 11, 2026

Clinical Trial Failure Prediction

Phase-3 trial outcome prediction over the AACT clinical trials database, with a leakage audit that proved the headline number is signal, not label encoding. Audited AUROC 0.8603. The audit methodology is the part worth carrying forward, not the model.

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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