Mayank Singh

Assistant Professor, IIT Gandhinagar

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Mayank Singh is an assistant professor at IIT Gandhinagar, recognised for his pioneering work in low-resource and Indic language technologies. Singh played a key role in building BLOOM, the world’s largest open-access multilingual language model, and leads the development of the Ganga small language models for secure, offline use. His team is now spearheading data curation for EKA, India’s largest multilingual AI model initiative.

Singh, a collaborator with Soket AI Labs, is also the creator of foundational datasets like CoMI-LINGUA and TabLeX, and has developed public tools such as Gandhipedia and GurukulAI. A founding member of IndoML and host of India’s first ACM Summer School on Generative AI, Singh combines technical depth with community engagement. His mentorship of 100+ BTech students—many published at top AI conferences—has redefined undergraduate research in India.

With ₹8.6 crore in grants and deep industry ties, Singh is advancing inclusive, indigenous AI aligned with national priorities.