Portrait of Aidan Sirbu

Aidan Sirbu

Master's Research - McGill University
Supervisor
Blake Richards
Research Topics
Computational Neuroscience
Deep Learning
Robotics
Website
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Publications

MIMIC-MJX: Neuromechanical Emulation of Animal Behavior
Charles Y. Zhang
Yuanjia Yang
Aidan Sirbu
Elliott T.T. Abe
Emil Wärnberg
Eric J. Leonardis
Diego E. Aldarondo
Adam Lee
Aaditya Prasad
Jason Foat
Kaiwen Bian
Joshua Park
Rusham Bhatt
Hutton Saunders
Akira Nagamori
Ayesha R. Thanawalla
Kee Wui Huang
Fabian Plum
Hendrik K. Beck
Steven W. Flavell … (see 6 more)
David Labonte
Blake A. Richards
Bingni W. Brunton
Eiman Azim
Bence P. Ölveczky
Talmo D. Pereira
The primary output of the nervous system is movement and behavior. While recent advances have democratized pose tracking during complex beha… (see more)vior, kinematic trajectories alone provide only indirect access to the underlying control processes. Here we present MIMIC-MJX, a framework for learning biologically-plausible neural control policies from kinematics. MIMIC-MJX models the generative process of motor control by training neural controllers that learn to actuate biomechanically-realistic body models in physics simulation to reproduce real kinematic trajectories. We demonstrate that our implementation is accurate, fast, data-efficient, and generalizable to diverse animal body models. Policies trained with MIMIC-MJX can be utilized to both analyze neural control strategies and simulate behavioral experiments, illustrating its potential as an integrative modeling framework for neuroscience.
2025-12-01
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