Hi, my name is Sidharth Padmanabhan, a Master's student in Informatics at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland. I currently work with Prof. Deborah Sulem on interpretable change-point detection in temporal graphs.
My research interests lie in developing efficient and interpretable methods for structured and irregularly observed data. I am particularly interested in relational and temporal structure, and in methods that remain reliable under incomplete or changing observations.
Before joining USI, I completed my Bachelor's (B.Tech) in Electronics and Computer Engineering from
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2025. My final year project was supervised by Prof. Ragesh Rajan.
Throughout my studies, I worked closely with Prof. Poorna S S and Prof. Anuraj K.
E-mail: sidharth [dot] padmanabhan [at] usi [dot] ch
News
- Sep 2025
- Started MSc in Informatics at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano 🇨🇭
- Aug 2025
- Book chapter on "Blockchain for 6G M2M Communication" published in IGI Global
- Aug 2025
- Graduated B.Tech in Electronics & Computer Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 🎓
- Dec 2024
- Paper on "Staircase Classification" published at ICONAT 2024
- Nov 2024
- Paper on "COVID-19 Detection from Cough Audio" published at ICCIDA 2024
- Oct 2024
- Book chapter on "Blockchain-IoT in Healthcare" published in IGI Global
Past updates
- Feb 2024
- Started Research Internship at SUTD, Singapore 🇸🇬
- Aug 2023
- Started Research Internship at HuT Labs
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Research & Work Experience
| Feb 2024 - Apr 2024 |
Singapore University of Technology and
Design (SUTD), Singapore Research Intern - Robotics Developed navigation system for Smorphi cleaning robot with
LiDAR mapping, achieving 30% better performance. Helped re-implement educational robot curriculum and
assisted with inventory management at Wefaa Robotics.
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| Aug 2023 - Feb 2024 |
HuT
Labs, Kerala, India Research Intern - Machine Learning Re-implemented ML components for staircase detection in the
'sTetro' robot project. Created and labeled a dataset (9500+ samples) and developed a custom Deep CNN
model achieving 23% improvement over benchmarks.
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| Oct 2022 - Jan 2023 |
Team bi0s, Kerala, India Full Stack Developer Worked on design and development of a CMS website with
responsive UI and multi-tier user login. Collaborated in an agile environment with cross-functional
teams.
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Activities
Positions of Responsibility:
- IEEE RAS Chair - Student Branch, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (2024 - 25)
- Lead Colorist - Media Amritapuri / BRollers (2023 - 25)
Organization:
- Technical workshop on Cyber Security, Arduino, Git/GitHub, and C programming as part of SSR initiative 2023