Siddharth Srikanth

Incoming CS PhD Student @ Columbia. Prev. CS + Applied Math @ USC

Los Angeles, California, United States

About

I'm an incoming CS PhD student at Columbia University advised by Yunzhu Li. My research focus is developing effective mechanisms for training policies with minimal data and training foundation models that leverage diverse, multimodal data (i.e. tactice sensing, vision, etc.) to enable generalization and robustness in real-world environments.

Experience

  • Incoming Graduate Research Assistant at Columbia Engineering
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Incoming Graduate Research Assistant at the RoboPIL Lab. Advised by Yunzhu Li.

  • USC Viterbi School of Engineering (On-site)
    • ICAROS Lab
      Dec 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

      Quality diversity optimization in multi-agent domains. Advised by Stefanos Nikolaidis.

    • SLURM Lab
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

      Safety and robustness for robot foundation models. Advised by Daniel Seita.

    • InfoLab
      May 2024 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Causality inference for spatiotemporal data. Advised by John Krumm.

  • Quant SC (2 yrs 5 mos)
    • Co-President
      Dec 2023 - May 2025 · 1 yr 6 mos

      QuantSC is an educational student organization at USC for students to explore the intersections of computer science, math, and economics through quantitative finance.

    • General Member
      Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr

  • Software Development Intern at Janus Henderson Investors
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    Developed PL/SQL procedures and ETL pipelines (Informatica) to process and upload investment data, with testing, deployment (Azure DevOps), and Agile collaboration.

  • Project Let's Talk Code at Arizona State University
    May 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Worked with ASU and Navajo Technical University to help teachers integrate computer science into classrooms. Developed culturally relevant curriculum and led training sessions.