Dr. Alok Prakash is an accomplished research scientist with over a decade of expertise in resource-efficient AI, edge computing, autonomous vehicles, and intelligent transportation systems. He currently serves as the Scientific Director of the interdisciplinary research program Mens, Manus, and Machina (M3S) at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). His work focuses on developing intelligent systems that are computationally efficient and scalable for real-world applications, including smart cities, intelligent transportation systems, and AI for education.
Dr. Prakash earned his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and conducted his postdoctoral research at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, where he pioneered methodologies for low-power, high-performance embedded platforms. He has led numerous interdisciplinary projects, advancing the development of energy-efficient computer vision solutions for edge devices, including AI-powered IoT sensors and autonomous systems. An accomplished educator and mentor, he has designed and taught courses in IoT and embedded systems while publishing extensively in top-tier journals and conferences. Dr. Prakash is a Senior Member of ACM and IES.
4D Reconstruction with Events & RGB
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Venue:
The 19th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2026): 3rd Workshop on Neuromorphic Vision: Advantages and Applications of Event Cameras
2026
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Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Dulanga Weerakoon (SMART), Darshana Rathnayake (SMART), Van Minh Do (SMART), Hemanth
Sabbella (SMU), Kaichen Zhou (MIT), Fangneng Zhan (MIT), Alok Prakash (SMART), Sanjay Sarma (MIT),
Archan Misra (SMU), and Paul Pu Liang (MIT)
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Venue:
Workshop on Continual Adaptation at Scale: Towards Sustainable AI, in conjunction with ICML 2026 (covered by VentureBeat)
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Ryan Wei Heng Quek (NUS), Sanghyuk Lee (U Tokyo & Liquid AI), Alfred Wei Lun Leong (NUS & AI Singapore), Arun Verma (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Nancy F. Chen (A*STAR), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS & SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT & SMART), Armando Solar-Lezama (MIT & SMART)
MineDraft: A Framework for Batch Parallel Speculative Decoding
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Venue:
ICML 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Zhenwei Tang (NTU), Arun Verma (SMART), Zijian Zhou (SMART), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (SMART & MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (SMART & NUS)
3-RRS and 3-RRUR parallel manipulators as spatial positioning manipulators
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Venue:
Int. Symp. Robot. Res. (ISRR), 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Wu Yongxin (NUS), Luis Hernandez (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Fabio Duarte (MIT) and Daniela Rus (MIT)
Two-finger soft gripper with a scaled-pad contact interface for dual-mode grasping and surface cleaning
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Venue:
IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intell. Robots Syst. (IROS), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Luis Hernandez (SMART), Zhi Cong Wong (SMART), Mong Juin Hwaye (NUS), Wu Yongxin (NUS), Do Van Minh (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Cecilia Laschi (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Fabio Duarte (MIT) and Daniela Rus (MIT)
The RoboAtlas: Mapping the Global Robotics Landscape
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Venue:
ICRA 2026
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Jiacheng Zhang (NUS), Shuo Sun (SMART), Vasiliki Charisi (SMART), Xinru Wang (SMART), Xinyue Chen (NUS), Zhexuan Ma (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Thomas W Malone (MIT)
Perception-Aware Multimodal Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images
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Venue:
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Yanchun Cheng (NUS, SMART), Rundong Wang (NUS, Flexiv), Xulei Yang (A*STAR), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Marcelo Ang (NUS), Shijie Li (A*STAR)
GLASS: A Global and Local Adaptive Segmentation System for Robust Transparent Object Perception
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Venue:
IROS 2026 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Yanchun Cheng (NUS, SMART), Rundong Wang (NUS, Flexiv), Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Zefan Huang (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
SENSE: Satellite-based ENergy Synthesis for Sustainable Environment
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Venue:
32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
2026
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Kailai Sun (SMART), Mingyi He (MIT), Heye Huang (SMART), Can Rong (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Baoshen Guo (SMART), Shenhao Wang (UF), Jinhua Zhao (MIT)
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Venue:
Arxiv.org
2026
Publication Type:
Article
Status:
Arxiv
Authors:
Alice Cai (MIT), Iman YeckehZaare (MIT), Shuo Sun (SMART), Vasiliki Charisi (SMART), Xinru Wang (SMART), Aiman Imran (MIT), Robert Laubacher (MIT), Alok Prakash (SMART), Thomas Malone (MIT)
AGI-Elo: How far are we from mastering a task?
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Venue:
NeurIPS
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Accepted
Authors:
Shuo Sun (SMART), Yimin Zhao (NUS), Christina Dao Wen Lee (NUS), Jiawei Sun (NUS), Chengran Yuan (NUS), Zefan Huang (NUS), Dongen Li (NUS) , Justin KW Yeoh (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Thomas Malone (MIT), and Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
ICLR 2026 (Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Multi-Turn Interactions in Large Language Models (MTI-LLM), in conjunction with NeurIPS 2025)
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zijian Zhou (SMART), Ao Qu (MIT), Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Sunghwan Kim (Yonsei University), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jinhua Zhao (MIT), Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS), Paul Pu Liang (MIT)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Vienna, Austria, 27th July, 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zhaoxuan Wu (SMART), Zijian Zhou (SMART), Arun Verma (SMART), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), and Bryan Kian Hsiang Low (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025
2025
Publication Type:
Journal
Status:
Published
Authors:
Wang Rundong (NUS, Flexiv), Cheng Yanchun (NUS, SMART), Yuan Qilong (SIT), Alok Prakash (SMART), Francis EH Tay (NUS), Marcelo Ang (NUS)
Year of Publication:
Venue:
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
2024
Publication Type:
Conference
Status:
Published
Authors:
Zijian Zhou (SMART), Xiaoqiang Lin (NUS), Xinyi Xu (NUS), Alok Prakash (SMART), Daniela Rus (MIT), Bryan Low (NUS)