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. I am also on Google Scholar, GitHub, and LinkedIn.

Le-VLWM
Under Review
Text-Goal Control with Vision-Language World Model
arXiv -code -website -
hBN in Li/Na-ion batteries
ACS Nano 2025
Advances and opportunities for hBN in Li/Na-ion batteries
Outlook on Na-ion Battery
Journal of Materials Science 2024
Review of cathode and anode materials positioning Na-ion as an alternative to Li-ion