I am a postdoctoral researcher in the K Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience center and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. I study comparative motor control across species with Prof. Nidhi Seethapathi. I can be contacted at adecomit (snail) mit (dot) edu.

Research interests

I am investigating naturalistic movements such as locomotion and reaching to understand how humans and animals control them. I am using high throughput data generation during locomotion to track the animals kinematics as they walk and combine classic data analysis techniques and machine learning to capture various features of locomotion control. I combined this experimental approach with Mujoco simulations controlled by Deep RL agents to test different hypotheses for the origin of the features observed experimentally.

Education and background

I received my PhD in applied mathematics in February 2022. During my PhD at UCLouvain with Profs. Philippe Lefevre and Frederic Crevecoeur, I studied the dynamic aspects of control policies used by humans during reaching using experiments and models. I was a visiting PhD student from November 2021 to January 2022 in the lab of Andrew Pruszynski at the Western University of Ontario in London, Ontario. During my undergrad and master at UCLouvain, I studied applied physics with a specialization in spectroscopy through a combination of experimental and modeling work.

I am also involved in the Neuromatch Academy where I was the head of the operations department in 2023 and the matching coordinator in 2024.

Other interests

In my free time, I enjoy reading science-fiction novelettes and short stories, learning new things through reading (history, science, maths), and hiking in the nature.