About
🎉 Starting November 2026, I will be an Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Check out my new lab website: singhlab.cc
Welcome! I am an Alice and Joseph Brooks Postdoctoral Fellow in Kanaka Rajan’s AI + Neurotheory Lab at the Harvard Medical School and the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence.
Previously, I spent a year applying AI to biology and medicine in Ankit Patel’s Lab at the Baylor College of Medicine / Rice University in Houston, TX. I completed my PhD in December 2021 at the University of Washington (Seattle), where my research bridged Machine / Reinforcement Learning and Computational Neuroscience. Before that, I earned an MS in Computer Science from Oregon State University and an MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Iowa.
I have also worked in industry for about five years:
as a Research Scientist in Machine Learning at Meta’s Probability Team;
a Data Scientist at LinkedIn (now Microsoft);
a Machine Learning Engineer / Product Manager at Orbitz.com (now Expedia);
a Design Engineer at Texas Instruments; and a Robotics Intern at Systemantics.
Contact
- 📧 Email: satpreetsingh[at]gmail[dot]com OR satpreet_singh[at]hms[dot]harvard[dot]edu
- 🔗 Social: LinkedIn, Twitter/X, BlueSky
- 📄 Research & Code: Google Scholar, GitHub, ORCID
- 💬 Feedback: Anonymous message box
News
- Nov 2026: Starting my lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, and likely winding down posting here. See: singhlab.cc
- Oct 2026: Co-authored paper on Curriculum Learning in RL accepted at NeurIPS 2026, with John J. Vastola, Ann Huang and Kanaka Rajan.
- Oct 2026: Extended abstracts accepted to NeurIPS 2026 Workshops on Interpretability for Discovery and Developmental Perspectives on AI (Catch the first-author Linran “Lily” Wei at Atlanta, GA in December).
- Sept 2026: Guest lecture in the Harvard Math 242: Evolutionary Dynamics course. Introduced students to RL/Deep-RL and our research on building “virtual model organisms”.
- Aug 2026: Two posters at CCN 2026: Larval zebrafish hunting (co-first authored with Raaghav Malik and Sonja Johnson-Yu), accepted to the Proceedings of CCN 2026, and Zebrafish Collective Behavior as an extended abstract.
- May 2026: Talk at the Harvard/MIT Workshop on Invented, Constructed, and Emergent Languages in Multi-Agent AI Systems.
- May 2026: Talk with Sonja Johnson-Yu at the Kempner Spring into Science Symposium: “Reverse-engineering natural intelligence in weakly electric fish: a virtual laboratory approach.”
- Apr 2026: Talk at the Janelia 2026 Conference on “Simulated Bodies: Whole Body Biomechanical Models”.
- Mar 2026: Ann and Mitchell delivered the InputDSA oral talk at CoSyNe 2026 in Lisbon; co-ran the second Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience workshop.
- Jan 2026: InputDSA accepted to ICLR 2026!!
- Dec 2025: Our submission titled InputDSA: Demixing then Comparing Recurrent and Externally Driven Dynamics got selected for a spotlight talk at CoSyNe 2026!! Weakly Electric Fish MARL agents accepted as a poster!
- Dec 2025: Delivered a Harvard Center for Brain Science (CBS) Neurolunch talk
- Nov 2025: Our workshop on “Agent-based Models in Neuroscience: Theory, Autonomy, Embodiment and Environment” was accepted to CoSyNe 2026! Organizing team: myself, Aran Nayebi (CMU) and Elliott Abe (UW).
- Oct 2025: Three abstracts accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on AI for Non-Human Animal Communication — MARL for Weakly Electric Fish, Unsupervised Machine Translation with MARL, Source Separation.
- Sept 2025: Paper on Degeneracy in RNN Solutions — NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight.
- Sept 2025: Paper on Hunting Zebrafish Deep RL Agents — Updated Preprint, AI4Science Workshop (Spotlight).
- June 2025: RLDM 2025 Spotlight Talk on MARL for Weakly Electric Fish Collectives.
- May 2025: Delivered the “Pizza Talk” at Harvard Medical School for the Rajan Lab on multi-agent electrosensing collectives.
- April 2025: Presented Plume Tracking Agents at the Collectively Emerged Timescales Workshop at CoSyNe 2025.
- April 2025: Organized the first workshop on Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond at CoSyNe 2025 (recordings available).
- March 2025: Awarded the Alice and Joseph Brooks Fund Postdoctoral Fellowship (2025–26) at Harvard Medical School.
- Apr 2024: Did a talk on my PhD DeepRL x Flying Insect paper at the Harvard Medical School RL Seminar
