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

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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.
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.
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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