Alloy Das

Alloy Das is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, where he joined the Self-aware Complex Systems Laboratory in Fall 2025. Before joining Iowa State, he was a Research Assistant in the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. His research focuses on computer vision, multimodal representation learning, and agricultural AI, including multimodal masked autoencoders for plant reconstruction and lighting-robust instance segmentation. His broader interests span autonomous systems, machine perception, and adaptive intelligence.