Dr. Kuldeep Singh

Dr. Kuldeep Singh is the CEO and Co-founder of Eka Labs AI, a deeptech startup building hyper-specialized Small Language Models (SLMs) for domain-specific intelligence.

Previously, he served as Director of AI Technology at Cerence AI, where he led the development and scaling of Generative AI and LLM-powered products from 0→1, enabling millions of user interactions across leading automotive OEMs, including Volkswagen, Audi, Toyota, Geely, JLR, and Ford, as well as Tier-1 suppliers. He also contributed to the development of Cerence’s automotive-grade LLM (CaLLM) and its deployment into premium infotainment systems, shaping next-generation voice-driven mobility experiences.

Dr. Singh holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bonn as a Marie Curie Fellow under Prof. Dr. Sören Auer. He later led Conversational AI research at Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann. He has authored 50+ publications in top AI venues such as ICLR, AAAI, ACL, and The Web Conference, and holds two U.S. patents. His research focuses on knowledge distillation and Reinforcement learning for SLMs and graph representation learning, and he actively contributes in program committee of leading AI conferences.