I am a PhD student at USC, advised by Prof. Jesse Thomason. My research interests are across NLP and robotics; primarily around why (how) language is necessary for (can be utilized in) robot learning and embodied AI. I think that problems under Embodied AI are yet more foundational, and hold deep-rooted benefits for the society.
Previously, I was an undergrad at IIT Kanpur, where I worked on topics relating to NLP and theoretical ML with Prof. Ashutosh Modi (IIT-K), Prof. Nisheeth Srivastava (IIT-K), and Prof. Pengtao Xie ( UC San Diego). I have spent some summers interning at Adobe Research, where I also received the Adobe India WIT Scholarship 2020, and NVIDIA SRL.
PhD, Computer Science, 2021 -
University of Southern California, LA, CA
B.Tech., double major in Computer Science and Chemical Engineering, 2016 - 2021
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
May, 2024 |
The Colosseum is accepted to RSS 2024 and is open-source now!
Feb, 2024 | Interviewed for ProgPrompt for a
Scientific American article!
Jan, 2024 | Released
The Colosseum: A Benchmark for Evaluating Generalization for Robotic Manipulation.
Jan, 2024 | Selected as Finalist for the
Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship with
Jesse Zhang!
Aug, 2023 | I will be interning again at
NVIDIA SRL in Summer'24 with
Valts and
Animesh!!
May, 2023 | I received
RAS Travel Grant to attend ICRA 2023!
May, 2023 | Self-supervised 3D representation learning is accepted to
Pretraining4Robotics workshop @ ICRA 2023.
Jan, 2023 | ProgPrompt is accepted to
ICRA 2023 and
AuRo Journal.
Feb, 2022 | Co-organizing vision-and-dialogue
TEACh TATC Challenge @
Embodied AI Workshop, CVPR'22 and CVPR'23.
Dec, 2021 | I will be interning at
NVIDIA AI Robotics Research Lab, Seattle in Summer'22, advised by
Valts and
Animesh!
Dec, 2021 | Work on Interactive Fiction Games accepted as extended abstract at AAMAS'22. [
arXiv].
Aug, 2021 | Joined the CS PhD program at USC as a member in the
GLAMOR Lab with 1 year of USC Grad Fellowship.
Sept, 2020 | Work on Affective Text Generation accepted as long paper at COLING'20. [
arXiv]
Sept, 2020 | Adobe released a blog on my internship at Adobe Research, India! [
Read here]
Jun, 2020 | Work on Differentially-private Federated Neural Architecture Search accepted at
FL-ICML'20. [
arXiv]
Dec, 2019 | Received Adobe India WIT Scholarship 2020. [
Adobe’s Blog][
Getting-through-it Advice!]
The COLOSSEUM: A Benchmark for Evaluating Generalization for Robotic Manipulation
Wilbert Pumacay*, Ishika Singh*, Jiafei Duan*, Ranjay Krishna, Jesse Thomason, Dieter Fox |
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ProgPrompt: Generating Situated Robot Task Plans using Large Language Models
Ishika Singh, Valts Blukis, Arsalan Mousavian, Ankit Goyal, Danfei Xu, Jonathan Tremblay, Dieter Fox, Jesse Thomason, Animesh Garg |
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Pre-trained Language Models as Prior Knowledge for Playing Text-based Games
Ishika Singh, Gargi Singh, Ashutosh Modi |
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Adapting a Language Model for Controlled Affective Text Generation
Ishika Singh*, Ahsan Barkati*, Tushar Goswamy, Ashutosh Modi |
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Differentially-private Federated Neural Architecture Search
Ishika Singh*, Haoyi Zhou*, Kunlin Yang, Meng Ding, Bill Lin, Pengtao Xie |
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Machine-learning techniques for augmenting electronic documents with data-verification indicators
Navita Goyal, Vipul Shankhpal, Priyanshu Gupta, Ishika Singh, Baldip Singh Bijlani, Anandhavelu Natarajan |