Siddhant Shrivastava

Curriculum vitae

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Research interests

  • Robust perception for long-term autonomy across domains
  • Resilient, secure and safe multi-robot systems
  • Verifiable multimodal multi-agent semantic coordination
  • Trusted human-robot interfaces
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Education

PhD Candidate, President's Graduate FellowshipJan 2026 - present

Singapore University of Technology and Design

Robust multimodal multi-robot systems and AI at the MARVL Lab (UAVs, UGVs, ROVs). GPA 5.15/5 (got A+ in two courses to push my GPA beyond 5.0).

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Computer Science2012 - 2016

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Robotics, computer networks, pervasive computing (department rank 1). Satellite photogrammetry intern at the Indian Space Research Organisation. CGPA 8.5/10.

Work

iTrust, Singapore University of Technology and DesignJan - Jun 2016, Apr 2018 - 2026

Cyber Tech Lead, Training Lead, Singapore

  • Led curriculum design and the GURU course delivery platform on operational technology security with the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), Singapore and Prof. Aditya Mathur, for CISS and CIDEX under Project CARBO.
  • Designed and built attack detection and automatic defence systems for critical infrastructure against cyber-physical attacks (ARGUS, PlantProtect). Published and patented.
  • Green team support and red team infrastructure for NATO CCDCOE’s Crossed Swords and Locked Shields: load balancers, scoring, attack launchers, AR/VR visualisers, detectors.
  • Judged cyber-physical exercises (CISS, CIDEX) from 2019 to 2025 with experts from MINDEF, CSA, PUB, NUS and Dragos. Hosted uniformed personnel, policymakers and dignitaries from around the world at iTrust.

Goldman SachsJun 2016 - Mar 2018

Strategic Analyst, India, USA

  • Designed file systems, DSLs and web applications for visualising the network structure of ultra high net worth entities at Private Wealth Management (Investment Management Division).
  • Designed GS Quantify, a nationwide hackathon testing programming, quant and data science skills.

Google Summer of Code, Italian Mars SocietyJan - Jul 2015

Student developer (Python Software Foundation), Remote

  • Built a telerobotics application for a Mars rover with the Italian Mars Society (now the Mars City Project). Blog series.

Honours and awards

SUTD Awards2020, 2022, 2024

SUTD Champion (2020), Community Award (2022), Long Service (2024). Nominated by Prof. Aditya Mathur and Prof. Sun Sun Lim.

Young CRITIS Award2021

Best young researcher paper at CRITIS 2021, for Super Detector.

Hackathons2019 - 2022

First prize at the Singapore National Blockchain Challenge (2019) and the Singapore Blockchain Innovation Challenge (2021-2022). Balaji Srinivasan Prize at the Solana India hackathon (2021). Special prize at HackZurich (2021). Devpost.

Publications

11 items. Full list with abstracts and BibTeX on the papers page.

  1. Gauthama Raman M R, Siddhant Shrivastava, Aditya P. Mathur. “Assessing the Effectiveness of PCAT in Avoiding Process Anomalies in Water Treatment Plants.” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2025.
  2. Siddhant Shrivastava, Aditya P. Mathur. “Next Generation Cyber-Physical Architecture and Training.” Cyberdefense: The Next Generation (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science), Springer, 2023.
  3. Siddhant Shrivastava, Oka Kurniawan, Nachamma Sockalingam. “Extended Reality for Enhanced Learning beyond the Classroom: Three Pandemic-Proof Prototypes.” ICON-BITS Conference (SSRN), 2022.
  4. Siddhant Shrivastava, Francisco Furtado, Mark Goh, Aditya Mathur. “The Design of Cyber-Physical Exercises (CPXs).” 14th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon), NATO CCDCOE, 2022.
  5. Sarah Allen, Ari Juels, Mukti Khaire, Tyler Kell, Siddhant Shrivastava. “NFTs for Art and Collectables: Primer and Outlook.” SocArXiv (IC3, Cornell University), 2022.
  6. Aditya Mathur, Sridhar Adepu, Siddhant Shrivastava, Myat Aung Kaung, Nils Tippenhauer, Giedre Sabaliauskaite. “Defense System and Method against Cyber-Physical Attacks.” US Patent US11431733B2 (filed 2017, granted 2022), Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2022.
  7. Siddhant Shrivastava, Gauthama Raman M R, Aditya Mathur. “PCAT: PLC Command Analysis Tool for Automatic Incidence Response in Water Treatment Plants.” IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2021.
  8. Madhumitha Balaji, Siddhant Shrivastava, Sridhar Adepu, Aditya Mathur. “Super Detector: An Ensemble Approach for Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems.” Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS), LNCS, Springer, 2021. Young CRITIS Award (best young researcher paper).
  9. Siddhant Shrivastava, Sridhar Adepu, Aditya Mathur. “Design and Assessment of an Orthogonal Defense Mechanism for a Water Treatment Facility.” Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2018.
  10. Sridhar Adepu, Siddhant Shrivastava, Aditya Mathur. “Argus: An Orthogonal Defense Framework to Protect Public Infrastructure against Cyber-Physical Attacks.” IEEE Internet Computing, 2016.
  11. Siddhant Shrivastava. “BlackEnergy: Malware for Cyber-Physical Attacks.” iTrust Technical Report, Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2016.

Talks

Selected talks are on the talks page. Invited to speak at ETH Zurich, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, US Department of Homeland Security, ICS Joint Working Group, SUTD Pedagogy Day, International Future of Education Conference 2024, with CampusX.

Community

  • Founder, DesignSG and ProductSG (5000+ members as of 2025)
  • Steward, Kernel
  • Tech Lead, Better.SG

Reports