PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Aarti Singh

Aarti Singh is a machine-learning researcher whose work develops interactive algorithms for learning and decision making. She earned engineering degrees in Delhi and Wisconsin, completed a Princeton postdoctoral appointment, and joined Carnegie Mellon in 2009. Her work includes PeerReview4All for fair conference reviewer assignment and Projection Optimization, a 2025 framework for multi-objective reinforcement learning from human feedback. As of October 2026, she is a professor in CMU's Machine Learning Department and director of its NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making.

Works
120
Citations
2,711
h-index
29

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2001–2008

    Degrees in Delhi and Wisconsin

    She earns a B.E. in electronics and communication engineering from the University of Delhi in 2001, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2003, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering there in 2008.

  2. 2008–2009

    Princeton postdoc and CMU faculty

    She works as a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics from 2008 to 2009, then joins Carnegie Mellon's faculty in 2009.

  3. 2014

    The Habermann chair

    In 2014, she receives the A. Nico Habermann Chair of Computer Science, a three-year endowed CMU chair for faculty in the early stages of their careers.

  4. 2021

    PeerReview4All for fair review

    In 2021, she coauthors PeerReview4All, an automated method for conference reviewer assignment that uses incremental max-flow to maximize review quality for the most disadvantaged paper.

  5. May 2023

    Directing AI-SDM

    In May 2023, Carnegie Mellon names her director of the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making, which develops human-centric AI tools for decisions in disaster management and public health.

  6. 2025

    Projection Optimization for RLHF

    With Nuoya Xiong, she publishes Projection Optimization at ICML 2025, a multi-objective RLHF framework that handles groups with different weights for their objectives.

  7. 2025

    General chair of ICML

    She serves as General Chair of the International Conference on Machine Learning in 2025.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor and institute director

    She is the FORE Systems Professor in CMU's Machine Learning Department and director of the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making. Her research develops principled interactive algorithms for learning and decision making in scientific and societal domains.

Career

  1. Since 2014Carnegie Mellon UniversityFORE Systems Professor, Director
  2. 2008–2009Princeton UniversityPostdoctoral Research Associate

Education

  1. 2008University of Wisconsin–MadisonPh.D.
  2. 2003University of Wisconsin–MadisonM.S.
  3. 2001University of DelhiB.E.

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Aarti Singh - Manufacturing Futures Institute engineering.cmu.edu. Checked 26 October 2026.
  2. Singh and Srinivasa Awarded Habermann and Finmeccanica Chairs cs.cmu.edu. Checked 26 October 2026.
  3. PeerReview4All: Fair and Accurate Reviewer Assignment in Peer Review jmlr.org. Checked 26 October 2026.
  4. Carnegie Mellon Leads NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making cmu.edu. Checked 26 October 2026.
  5. Projection Optimization: A General Framework for Multi-Objective and Multi-Group RLHF proceedings.mlr.press. Checked 26 October 2026.
  6. Aarti Singh at Carnegie Mellon University experts.cmu.edu. Checked 26 October 2026.