PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Adish Singla

Adish Singla is a computer scientist whose AI work studies machine teaching and learning systems that adapt through interaction with people. He earned a bachelor's degree at IIT Delhi, a master's at EPFL and a computer-science PhD at ETH Zurich, worked in Bing Search before his PhD, and joined MPI-SWS as tenure-track faculty in 2017. He received Microsoft's Gold Star Award in 2010 and Tech Transfer Award in 2011, followed by a Facebook Graduate Fellowship in 2015. His research spans learning agents and reinforcement learning for education; in 2021 he received an ERC Starting Grant for TOPS, his project on machine-assisted teaching in open-ended problem solving. His group released Python and prompt-programming platforms in 2025; he is a tenured faculty member at MPI-SWS and co-organized a 2026 ICML workshop on Human-AI Co-Creativity.

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Timeline

  1. 2010–2015

    Microsoft and Facebook awards

    He receives the Microsoft Gold Star Award in 2010 and the Microsoft Tech Transfer Award in 2011, then a Facebook Graduate Fellowship in 2015.

  2. By 2017

    Education and Bing Search

    Before starting his computer-science PhD at ETH Zurich, he works for over three years as a Senior Development Lead in Bing Search. By 2017, he holds a bachelor's degree from IIT Delhi and a master's degree from EPFL and completes the PhD.

  3. 2017

    Joining MPI-SWS

    In October 2017, he joins MPI-SWS as a tenure-track faculty member. His research focuses on machine-learning frameworks and algorithms for systems where people are integral.

  4. 2018

    Learning to interact with agents

    In 2018, he coauthors “Learning to Interact with Learning Agents” with Hamed Hassani and Andreas Krause. The work studies online and active learning when queried experts are themselves learning agents, and shows how standard algorithms can fail as those experts adapt.

  5. 2021

    An education survey and ERC grant

    In 2021, he coauthors a survey of reinforcement learning for education that grows out of the RL4ED workshop at Educational Data Mining. The article surveys research directions and challenges for applying reinforcement learning to education. He also receives a 2021 ERC Starting Grant for TOPS, a project on machine-assisted teaching for open-ended problem solving.

  6. 2023

    Generative AI at NeurIPS

    In 2023, his group co-organizes the Generative AI for Education (GAIED) workshop at NeurIPS.

  7. March 2025–April 2025

    Python and prompt platforms

    In March 2025, his group releases a Python programming platform for K–12 levels. In April 2025, it releases a prompt programming platform.

  8. As of October 2026

    Tenured faculty at MPI-SWS

    As of October 2026, he is a tenured faculty member at MPI-SWS. In 2026, his group co-organizes the Human-AI Co-Creativity workshop at ICML.

Career

  1. Since 2017Max Planck SocietyTenured faculty member
  2. MicrosoftSenior Development Lead

Education

  1. IIT DelhiBachelor's degree
  2. EPFLMaster's degree
  3. ETH ZurichPhD

From the biography.

  1. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Max Planck Society. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Max Planck Society. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  3. People shaping AI work at a median of 3 organizations over a career: 3 for university starters and institute and lab starters, versus 2 for company startersIncludes Max Planck Society. Across 6,853 people shaping AI with a dated work role, we estimate a median of 3 parent organizations over a career (mean 3.6), comparing role groups, starting sectors and starting decades from the 1950s to 2020–2026.
  4. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes Max Planck Society. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Lecturer Biographies cmmrs2024.mpi-sws.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Adish Singla to join MPI-SWS as tenure-track faculty saarland-informatics-campus.de. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Research Spotlight – MPI SWS mpi-sws.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Reinforcement Learning for Education: Opportunities and Challenges arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Adish Singla awarded ERC Starting Grant mpi-sws.mpg.de. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Machine Teaching Group - Adish Singla machineteaching.mpi-sws.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. Adish Singla – MPI SWS mpi-sws.mpg.de. Checked 20 October 2026.