Esha Singh

Esha Singh

e3singh@ucsd.edu

I am a forth year Ph.D student at University of California, San Diego (CSE), fortunately advised by Prof. Yi-An Ma. I also work closely with Prof. Rose Yu and Prof. Yu-Xiang Wang.

I spent my recent summers interning at Amazon Alexa AI (2025) and Cerebras (2024).

Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned my Masters at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, advised by Prof. Ju Sun (GLOVEX lab). I also worked as a Research Assistant with Prof. Rui Zhang from 2019–2021. I completed my undergraduate degree at BITS Pilani, India.

News

Feb 11, 2026 New preprint: Divide and Learn — multi-objective combinatorial optimization at scale, now on arXiv!
Mar 8, 2024 Our paper accepted at Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL 2025) @PMLR — see you at CoDA, Stanford!
Oct 11, 2024 Our paper was accepted to the ML & Compression workshop @NeurIPS 2024!
Jun 17, 2024 Joined Cerebras Systems Inc. as a Research Scientist Intern!
May 30, 2024 Set to join UCSD in September 2024!
Oct 27, 2023 Paper accepted at M3L @NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans!
Oct 13, 2023 Will volunteer @NeurIPS 2023
Sep 1, 2022 Joined UCSB

Selected Publications

My research develops principled and scalable algorithms for modern machine learning, centering on generative models, optimization theory, and large language models. I am driven by a core question: how can we design learning algorithms that are simultaneously theoretically grounded, computationally efficient, and practically impactful?

divide and learn
Esha Singh, Dongxia Wu, Chien-Yi Yang, Tajana Rosing, Rose Yu, Yi-An Ma
arXiv Preprint, 2026

Reformulates multi-objective combinatorial optimization as online learning over decomposed decision spaces, achieving 80–98% of specialized solvers with two to three orders of magnitude improvement in sample and computational efficiency.

ambient nova
Esha Singh
Amazon Alexa+ AI, 2025 · Technical Report

Temporally aligned multi-modality video generation using latent diffusion models for ambient sounds. Work done as an Applied Scientist II Intern at Amazon Alexa+ AI, Bellevue, WA.

sparsity
Esha Singh, S. Bergsma, N. Dey, Joel Hestness, Gavia Gray
NeurIPS 2024, Workshop on Machine Learning & Compression
moxco
CPAL 2025 (PMLR) · NeurIPS 2023 (M3L Workshop)

Adaptive optimizers that expedite exploration with faster convergence while ensuring avoidance of over-exploitation, leading to convergence to good solutions.

survey
A. Bompelli, Y. Wang, R. Wan, Esha Singh, Y. Zhou, L. Xu, D. Oniani, B. Singh, J. Balls-Berry, Rui Zhang
SPJ, AAAS, 2021

A scoping review of SBDH factors, the relationship between SBDH and diseases, NLP techniques to extract SBDH from clinical notes, and predictive models using SBDH factors.

conversational agent
Esha Singh, A. Bompelli, R. Wan, J. Bian, S. Pakhomov, Rui Zhang
Springer Nature, BMC, 2022

Develops the first Conversational Agent system for Dietary Supplement use using the MindMeld framework and iDISK knowledge base.

everyday living AI
R. Finzel, Esha Singh, M. Michalowski, M. Gini, S. Pakhomov
NAACL 2021

A proof-of-concept framework for enhancing health and wellbeing via tailored wearable and Conversational Agent solutions for non-invasive monitoring and personalized interventions.

idisk
Esha Singh, A. Bompelli, A. Yang, A. Wang, S. Pakhomov, R. Zhang
IEEE ICHI 2020 (Oral Presentation)

A prototype conversational agent system catered to resolve user queries regarding dietary supplements.

Teaching