Building next-gen AI & automation to amplify human potential

Founder → Stealth Startup
Co-founder, CPO → Artificial
Human-AI Researcher → MIT
BD & Product → Palantir


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Bio

I am deeply passionate about building next-gen applications that harness the power of AI and automation to amplify human potential. My professional journey has been dedicated to this mission across a range of industries including biotech, robotics, logistics, media, manufacturing, education and more.

Currently, I am Co-founder and CEO of a Stealth Startup focused on helping our most critical institutions navigate the chaos of the innovation ecosystem. Prior to this, I was the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Artificial, connecting intelligence to the physical world to transform scientific labs. In addition to these roles, I continue to mentor founders and companies as an Advisor at MIT Engine, Mayfield AI Pathfinders, and Climate Capital Bio and Board Member at Artificial.

Before my entrepreneurial journey, I was a Researcher at the MIT Media Lab where I designed and studied novel interactions between human and AI systems. I also drove product and business development at Palantir for several Fortune 500 companies and government agencies in the US and Europe. My early career also includes formative experiences at startups including Rypple (acquired by Salesforce), Loose Button, and university research labs such as UC Berkeley AutoLab, Robarts Research and CSTAR.

Throughout my career, I have consulted for a wide array of organizations in both the private and public sectors, including Robust.AI, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Bose and more. I received my M.Sc. in Media Arts & Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and my B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California-Berkeley.

My work has been featured in Tech Crunch, Fast Company, CBS, Entrepreneur Magazine, NPR and more. Outside of making AI systems and robots cooperate, I can be found designing disaster relief solutions with the Field Innovation Team, obsessively trying to conquer the Sunday NYT crossword, writing in my notebook, or building fun projects in the machine shop.

  • Stealth Company (Co-founder, CEO), Artificial (Co-founder, CPO, Board Member), Palantir (Commercial BD & Product), Rypple (acquired by Salesforce), Loose Button

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Media Lab, Master of Science in Media Arts & Sciences (Human-AI Interaction)

    University of California-Berkeley, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

  • MIT Media Lab, Personal Robots Group (Thesis Committee:. Cynthia Breazeal, Dr. Neri Oxman, Dr. Rosalind Picard)

    UC Berkeley AutoLab (Dr. Ken Goldberg)

    Robots Research Institute

    Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics

  • Robust.AI, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Climate Capital Bio, Mayfield AI Pathfinders, Bose Corporation, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Canvas Technology, Frog Design, Sonos, Curious Learning + more

  • Field Innovation Team, Youth Science Canada, Berkeley Innovation

  • Forbes Technology Council Member, Canada’s Top 20 Under 20, Analytical, Life Science & Diagnostics Association (ALDA) Member, Bose Fellowship, Leading Women, Building Communities Award, Team Canada Intel International Science & Engineering Fair

Press

Talks

Built With Biology Women in Synthetic Biology Panel

SynBioBeta Spaces Nuclera, Motif Foodworks, & Artificial Panel

Silicon Valley Robotics Women in Robotics Panel

CHI Conference 2018 P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children as Storytellers and Listeners in Peer-to-Peer Interactions

Bose Corporation Invited Talk Series Designing Agents for the Home

MIT Media Lab Member Event Workshop Designing Agents for Everyday Life

Canadian Celebration of Women in Computing Designing Software Solutions for Global Outreach Projects

Publications & Patents

MIT THESIS

Talking Machines: Democratizing the Design of Voice-Based Agents for the Home

Singh, N. (2018). Talking machines: democratizing the design of voice-based agents for the home (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Graduate School Thesis.

US PATENT 20220043561A1

Predictive Instruction Text With Virtual Lab Representation Highlighting

Washington, J., Budd, G., Singh, N., Sganga, J., & Honda, A. L. (2022). U.S. Patent Application No. 17/392,119. 

US PATENT 20220040853A1

Robotics Calibration in a Lab Environment

Washington, J., Budd, G., Singh, N., Sganga, J., & Honda, A. L. (2022). U.S. Patent Application No. 17/392,125.

ICSR WORKSHOP

Preferences, Patterns, and Wishes for Agents in the Home

Ostrowski, Anastasia K., Nikhita S.. "Preferences, patterns, and wishes for agents in the home." ICSR 2018 Workshop on Social Human-Robot Interaction of Service Robots. 2018. 

ACM CHI

P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children as Storytellers and Listeners in Peer-to-Peer Interactions

Singh, N. Lee, J. J., Grover, I., & Breazeal, C. (2018, April). P2PSTORY: Dataset of Children as Storytellers & Listeners in P2P Interactions. 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-11) 

US PATENT 11919174B2

Protocol Simulation in a Virtualized Robotic Lab Environment

Washington, J., Budd, G., Singh, N., Sganga, J., & Honda, A. L. (2022). U.S. Patent Application No. 17/392,105.


US PATENT 20220040856A1

Adapting Robotic Protocols Between Labs

Washington, J., Budd, G., Singh, N., Sganga, J., & Honda, A. L. (2022). U.S. Patent Application No. 17/392,113.

US PATENT PENDING 20220040853A1

Translation and Automation of Protocols in a Robotic Lab

Washington, J., Budd, G., Singh, N., Sganga, J., & Honda, A. L. (2022). U.S. Patent Application No. 17/392,096.

NAE BRIDGE

Designing Social Robots for Older Adults

Breazeal, Cynthia L. , Ostrowski, Anastasia K., Singh, N., & Park, Hae Won. (2019). Designing social robots for older adults. National Academy of Engineering The Bridge, 49 (1), 22-31. 

US PATENT 9652510B1

Systems and User Interfaces for Data Analysis Including Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Generating Optimized Packages of Data Items

Systems and user interfaces for data analysis including artificial intelligence algorithms for generating optimized packages of data items. Y Huang, G Garde, N Singh, S Gershkon, J Winchester, L Pliuskys

For years, I have kept one notebook for every 365 days in my life. The pages serve as analog records of the work I do, places I visit, people I meet and thoughts I have—coexisting and contextualized in time. My notebooks have been featured in media such as Entrepreneur Magazine. Some say our notebooks give us away, so here is a peak into mine.

INSIDE MY NOTEBOOK

INSIDE MY NOTEBOOK