Ahitagni Das

I work on Pretraining and WM+IDMs for Manipulation. I am advised by Vivek Boominathan, Randall Balestriero, & Ashok Veeraraghavan.

Currently, I am the Founding Engineer at Optica Industries, where I lead ML and Perception. We are backed by Lightspeed, Neo, and Addition.

Previously, I worked on VLAs at Persona AI, Multimodal Intelligence at Sieve, & Energy, Nano Neuro-electronics at the MIT Media Lab, Ajayan Group, & IIT Guwahati.