ABOUT
I am the founding engineer at Optica Industries, building the next American Metal Company. We are backed by Lightspeed & Neo. If you are interested in joining, reach out.
I am a part of Neo and scout pre-seed startups for Clay VC. Previously, I worked on Robot Learning and MLOps at Persona AI to build Industrial Humanoids and researched Video Understanding at Sieve Data that powered Petabyte-scale video datasets for Frontier AI Labs.
My current research interest is World Modelling, particularly using JEPAs. I research Multimodal JEPAs, 3D Vision, & Computational Imaging with Randall Balesteiero and Vivek Boominathan. Previously, I worked on Colloidal Robotics at the MIT Media Lab, and Li/Na-ion batteries at the Ajayan Group & IIT Guwahati.
Grew up in Kolkata wanting to be a Theoretical Physicist — turns out building things is just as fun. When I'm not, I'm sailing, hiking or traveling somewhere new.
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CONTACT
I am easy to reach — book a meeting with a short blurb about what you want to talk about, or write to me at adas [at] rice [dot] edu. I am also on Twitter, GitHub, and LinkedIn.