Aadi is a PhD student in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department at MIT, where he has been since 2024 and is mentored by Steve Flavell. His thesis work revolves around developing connectome-constrained controllers of biomechanically realistic simulations of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans using graph neural networks. His research interests lie at the intersection of computational neuroethology and NeuroAI: developing deep learning-based tools and models to understand complex animal behaviors, in the hope that they inspire better AI algorithms. Before MIT, he completed a master’s in data science and an undergraduate degree in bioinformatics at the University of California San Diego. At UCSD, he was co-mentored by Talmo Pereira and Uri Manor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he worked on deep learning models for tracking animals, cells, and organelles in video timelapses.

Publications and presentations

Publications

• Prasad, A., Flavell, S.W., DePasquale, B. (2026). ZENO: Nonlinear filtering with Zakai Equation Neural Operators. arXiv. preprint