Who am I?

Hi, I’m Mohit Nadkarni; an entrepreneur, educator, and strategist whose work has evolved across neuroscience, healthcare, education, and business.

Today, much of my work centers on education, consulting, organizational strategy, and building systems that help individuals and organizations navigate complex decisions. As the founder of Nadkarni & Associates Consulting, I have spent years working directly with students and families across academic advising, educational planning, mentorship, and professional development. What began as a small, service-driven initiative grew into a broader organization built around individualized advising, accessibility, and the belief that a student’s opportunities should not be determined by how well they understand systems that were never explained to them.

Alongside my work in education and entrepreneurship, I have developed experience in strategic operations, financial analysis, organizational growth, contracts, and business development. I am particularly interested in the process of taking complicated problems — whether academic, operational, financial, or organizational — and turning them into clear, actionable strategies.

My approach to that work is heavily influenced by where my career began: neuroscience and clinical research.

I studied neuroscience at The University of Texas at Austin, where my early research interests centered on memory, learning, and cognitive variability. Through work in the Preston Lab, I contributed to research examining how memory changes across the lifespan using behavioral experimentation, computational approaches, neuroimaging, and noninvasive brain stimulation.

I later joined the Bornstein Lab at the University of California, Irvine, where my work expanded into computational cognitive neuroscience and the study of memory, aging, alcoholism, and substance use disorders. My research examined questions involving working and long-term memory, reinforcement learning, behavioral adaptation, and the ways individuals integrate and retain information.

Most recently, at Dell Medical School and the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, I worked in clinical research focused on pediatric and congenital heart disease and neurodevelopmental outcomes. Working alongside multidisciplinary clinical teams gave me a much broader understanding of how research, data, medicine, institutional systems, and individual circumstances intersect in determining patient outcomes.

Across these experiences, I contributed to research projects, manuscripts, conference presentations, predictive and outcomes-based analyses, and collaborations spanning neuroscience, cardiology, neurology, cognitive science, and healthcare.

Although my professional focus has expanded beyond the laboratory, my scientific training remains fundamental to how I think. Research taught me to question assumptions, distinguish evidence from intuition, analyze complicated systems, and remain willing to revise a conclusion when the evidence changes. Those principles now influence everything from how I advise a student to how I evaluate a business decision or design a new organizational process.

The common thread across my work is ultimately an interest in people and systems: how people learn, how institutions make decisions, why certain systems create opportunities while others create barriers, and how thoughtful strategy can produce better outcomes.

Whether I am working in education, entrepreneurship, business strategy, or research, my goal remains the same: to understand complicated problems deeply and build practical solutions that make them easier for people to navigate.