Ph.D. Student (M.S. leading to Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering
Joined Summer 2024
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University
- Translational AI Center (TrAC), Iowa State University
Tirtho is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University on the M.S.-leading-to-Ph.D. track, concurrently completing a B.S. in Data Science, and an AI researcher at the Translational AI Center (TrAC). He joined the lab in Summer 2024. His research centers on agentic vision-language systems for cyber-agriculture and spans cyber-agricultural systems, biology and health informatics, and FinTech, with work on vision-language models, multi-agent systems, and rigorous LLM/VLM evaluation.
Research interests: Agentic vision-language systems, cyber-agricultural systems, health informatics, FinTech, LLM/VLM evaluation
Publications with the lab (3)
- SAGE: Scalable Agentic Grounded Evaluation for Crop Disease Diagnosis — CVPR 2026 Workshop on Emerging Directions in Data for Multimodal Foundation Models (DataMFM) (2026)
- Leveraging vision language models for specialized agricultural tasks — 2025 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV … (2025)
- The impact of market orientation and brand storytelling on Shark Tank evaluations – a B2B and large language modeling perspective — Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing (2024)