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
Feb, 2022 | Co-organizing vision-and-dialogue
TEACh TATC Challenge @
Embodied AI Workshop, CVPR'22.
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.
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!]
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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 |