# Saumia Singhal

AI engineer at You.com; ex-Windsurf/Cognition software engineer; Georgia Tech MSCS; GSoC/ODK Collect contributor  
You.com  
Sunnyvale, California, United States

## At Cognition

- Role: Former Software Engineer (Engineering)
- Joined: Jun 2025
- How they joined: With Windsurf (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/acquisitions/windsurf)
- Before Windsurf: Software Engineer Intern, Woven by Toyota
- Now: You.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Overlapped before Cognition with other Cognition people at: Codeium (Windsurf); Microsoft (https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/worked-together)

## Identity
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158
- GitHub: https://github.com/SaumiaSinghal

## Notes
- LinkedIn lists Software Engineer at Windsurf (Mountain View) starting Jun 2025, which is how she came to Cognition: Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (formerly Codeium) in July 2025. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Cognition announced its acquisition of Windsurf (the agentic IDE, previously Codeium) in July 2025; Windsurf staff, including the software engineering team she was on, moved over to Cognition alongside Devin. (https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf)
- Did an M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech (2023-2025) while doing systems/ML research. She co-authored 'ReInc: Scaling Training of Dynamic Graph Neural Networks' (arXiv 2501.15348, Jan 2025) with Mingyu Guan, Taesoo Kim and Anand Padmanabha Iyer. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15348)
- Open source: GitHub PR search shows 39 pull requests to getodk/collect (31 merged) between 2020-03-17 and 2021-03-10. Most are a series of widget reworks (Range, Date/Time, Audio, Barcode, OSM, Bearing, Rating) plus UI fixes. (https://github.com/pulls?q=author%3ASaumiaSinghal)
- Google Summer of Code 2020 student developer for the Open Data Kit organization, working on the ODK Collect Android app: per her LinkedIn description, 'writing proper test framework and implementing various modifications throughout the codebase.' (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Software Engineer at Microsoft in Bengaluru from Feb 2022 to Jul 2023. She left to start the Georgia Tech M.S. in fall 2023. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Public headline says "AI Engineer at you.com". (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Software Engineer Intern at Woven by Toyota in Ann Arbor, Michigan (summer 2024), between the first and second years of her Georgia Tech master's. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Teaching assistant for Georgia Tech CS8803-MDS 'Human-in-the-loop Data Analytics' (Fall 2023, instructor Kexin Rong), alongside fellow TA Ashmita Raju. (https://kexinrong.github.io/fa23-cs8803/)
- Her last merged ODK Collect PR (#4470, Mar 2021) fixed the discard-changes dialog for GeoShape/GeoTrace widgets in Geopoly Activity. (https://github.com/getodk/collect/pull/4470)
- Graduate Software Engineer Trainee at Jaguar Land Rover India in Bengaluru (Sep 2020 - Feb 2022). This was her first job after IIT Roorkee and moved her from mechanical engineering into software. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- In Sep 2018, as a 'Junior Undergraduate student at IIT Roorkee', she replied on Discourse Meta to plugin-mentoring offers and said she had been 'directed by @lognaturel' (an ODK maintainer). (https://meta.discourse.org/t/learn-how-to-build-discourse-plugins-by-helping-me/87048/14)
- Summer Research Intern at IISc Bengaluru (May-Jul 2018): built a driving simulator in Unity 3D integrated with the PTV Vissim microscopic traffic simulator to study driving behaviour. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Google Summer of Code's Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) organization page lists 'Saumia Singhal. Mentor'. (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/projects/5675202723184640)
- Also sent PRs to Wikimedia Commons' Android app (commons-app/apps-android-commons) in 2020, including 'Create a Custom Decoder for Fresco Library', during the GSoC application season. (https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/pull/3864)
- B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, IIT Roorkee (2016-2020). Her MATLAB repos for an 8-degree-of-freedom biped walking robot model (2020) come from that mechanical/robotics background. (https://github.com/SaumiaSinghal?tab=repositories)
- Undergraduate Research Intern at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm (Apr-Jul 2019), during a semester exchange in mechanical engineering. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Previous roles include Software Engineer at Microsoft; Graduate Software Engineer Trainee at Jaguar Land Rover India; Student Developer at Google Summer of Code; Undergraduate Research Intern at KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Summer Research Intern at Indian Institute of Science (IISc). (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Education history includes Master's degree, Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee; Semester Exchange Student, Mechanical Engineering, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)
- Oct 2020 Hacktoberfest-style PRs of LeetCode graph/stack solutions (Critical Connections, Shortest Bridge, Largest Rectangle in Histogram) to codedecks-in/LeetCode-Solutions, plus a fork of CSES-Problems, show an interest in competitive-programming practice. (https://github.com/codedecks-in/LeetCode-Solutions/pull/100)
- A 2018 GitHub fork trail of the e-mission server, phone and docs repos (the open-source travel-data project) lines up with her summer 2018 transportation-research internship at IISc. (https://github.com/SaumiaSinghal?tab=repositories)
- Early Android/AR side projects on GitHub: Tanks-AR (C#, Unity, 2018) and the 'Aparna' Android app (2018). (https://github.com/SaumiaSinghal?tab=repositories)
- Location is Sunnyvale, California, United States. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158)

## Experience
- AI Engineer at You.com - San Francisco Bay Area (Jan 2026 - Present)
- Software Engineer at Windsurf - Mountain View, California, United States (Jun 2025 - Present)
- Software Engineer Intern at Woven by Toyota - Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States (May 2024 - Present)
- Software Engineer at Microsoft - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Feb 2022 - Jul 2023)
- Graduate Software Engineer Trainee at Jaguar Land Rover India - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India (Sep 2020 - Feb 2022)
- Student Developer at Google Summer of Code (Jun 2020 - Aug 2020): Worked as a Student Developer for Open Data Kit organization, on Android project Collect.
ODK Collect is an open-source Android Application available on Google Play Store. It helps the users to collect data through survey forms and to manage the data by sending the forms to the server.
Involved in writing proper test framework and implementing various modifications throughout the codebase.
- Undergraduate Research Intern at KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden (Apr 2019 - Jul 2019)
- Summer Research Intern at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) - Bengaluru, Karnataka (May 2018 - Jul 2018): Developed a Driving Simulator in Unity 3D, integrated with a microscopic traffic simulator (PTV Vissim), to study driving behaviors

## Education
- Georgia Institute of Technology - Master's degree, Computer Science - (Aug 2023 - Jul 2025)
- Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee - Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering - (Jan 2016 - Jan 2020)
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Semester Exchange Student, Mechanical Engineering - (Jan 2019 - Jan 2019)

## Sources
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumia-singhal-796062158
- https://api.github.com/search/issues?q=author:SaumiaSinghal+type:pr&per_page=50
- https://cognition.com/blog/windsurf
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15348
- https://nexs.scs.gatech.edu/publications.html
- https://kexinrong.github.io/fa23-cs8803/
- https://github.com/SaumiaSinghal
- https://github.com/SaumiaSinghal?tab=repositories
- https://meta.discourse.org/t/learn-how-to-build-discourse-plugins-by-helping-me/87048/14
- https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2020/projects/5675202723184640
- https://github.com/pulls?q=author%3ASaumiaSinghal
- https://github.com/getodk/collect/pull/4470
- https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/pull/3864
- https://github.com/codedecks-in/LeetCode-Solutions/pull/100


Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-04. Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people/saumia-singhal · Everyone at Cognition: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/cognition/people