Ishika Singh

Ishika Singh is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, advised by Professor Jesse Thomason. Her research spans natural language processing, embodied AI, and robotic manipulation, with a focus on how language can be utilized in robot learning. She is best known as co-developer of The Colosseum benchmark for evaluating generalization in robotic manipulation and lead researcher on Colosseum V2, which extends the framework to vision-language-action models. She has also conducted research internships at NVIDIA's robotics research labs and Amazon Frontier AI and Robotics.