Sid Lamichhane
About Me
I am currently in the final semester of my Master’s program in Information Systems Management, specializing in Data Science and Engineering, at the Technical University of Berlin.
My enthusiasm for research stems from the excitement of tackling complex problems, exploring innovative ideas, and contributing to impactful solutions. I deeply enjoy the process of reading, writing, and presenting research that has the potential to drive meaningful change.
Research Interests
- Decentralized Identity: Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials, Self-sovereign Identity
- Decentralized Systems Engineering: Decentralized Applications, Blockchain, Decentralized Storage Systems, InterPlanetary File System
- Trustworthy AI: zkML, Personhood Credentials, Decentralized Federated Learning
News
- [Oct. 2024] Presentation of VDIC paper @ the Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS).
- [Sep. 2024] Presentation of VDIC paper @ the TUM Blockchain Conference (see video recording).
- [Aug. 2024] Blog post for supply chain industry about trustworthy supply chain data management through cheqd’s Blockchain-based Decentralized Identifiers.
- [Jul. 2024] DIDChain wins best paper award @ IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering.
Publications
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BRAINS
Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS), Fall 2024. -
BRAINS
Conference on Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services (BRAINS), Fall 2024.PDF Demo paper -
SOSE
IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), Spring 2024.
Projects
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Trace4EU / EBSI
As part of the Trace4EU research project, I co-designed and implemented TrustCV, a decentralized application platform that enables applicants to share trustworthy CVs by leveraging verifiability through the Self-Sovereign Identity paradigm and the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), Spring 2025.Project Page Demo Research project -
LauzHack / EcoLens
Self-sovereign EcoLens is a decentralized information system that enables the issuance and redemption of Ecopoints as rewards for sustainable eating habits, without relying on centralized servers. The system was developed as a contribution to the LauzHack hackathon and the EcoLens project, December 2024. -
DIF
Self-initiated research project during the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) Hackathon, focused on creating a DID method for to enhance the identification of files in IPFS, October 2024. -
Trace4EU / EBSI
As part of the Trace4EU research project, I designed and implemented the first version of a web app that enables academic institutions to issue digital credentials (such as diplomas, language certificates, and student ID cards) in line with W3C standards for Verifiable Credentials, the OpenID for Verifiable Credential Issuance protocol, and Decentralized Identifiers, within the framework of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), Autumn 2024.Project Page Demo Research project -
DIF
SupplyTrust is a decentralized supply chain data management system designed to enhance transparency, traceability, and trust, developed as a contribution to the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) hackathon, October 2024. -
TUB
Research project conducted at the Digital Markets Lab of TU Berlin (TUB), exploring the spread and impact of fake news in digital markets, Summer 2024.PDF Research project -
Invero AG
Coding project during internship at Invero AG (URI, CH) centered on building a decentralized platform for tokenizing and purchasing investment club shares in compliance with Swiss regulations, Summer 2023.PDF Project Page Coding project -
EPFL
Research project at the Intelligent Global Health Lab of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), focusing on clustering data from real-world clinical decision support systems for syndromic surveillance, Spring 2023. -
EPFL
Research project at the Embedded Systems Lab of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), focusing on the development of lightweight CNN-based architectures for real-time cough detection on edge devices that classify audio and inertial measurement unit signals with high accuracy under memory constraints (<16,000 parameters), Winter 2022.PDF Research project -
TUB
Coding project for the Natural Language Processing course at TU Berlin (TUB), implementing and optimizing a machine translation system, Summer 2022.Code Coding project -
TUB
Coding project for the Natural Language Processing course at TU Berlin (TUB), focusing on text classification and measuring textual similarity, Summer 2022.Code Coding project
Certificates
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Crash course on good practices for PhD students, May 2024.
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Six week long educational bootcamp on Machine Learning with Zero-Knowledge Proofs (zkML), March 2024.
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Eight week long educational bootcamp on Solidity programming for smart contracts on Ethereum, June 2022.
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Scholarship for academic excellence and extra curricular commitment, 2022 - 2025.Certificate About Scholarship award
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Crash course on Design Thinking and how to enable your team to apply it, October 2021.
Voluntary Work
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Active member contributing to the "Identifiers & Discovery" working group, focusing on decentralized identity standards and solutions, 10/2024 - present.
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Planing and conducting weekly training sessions for teenage competition climbers, 10/2023 - present.
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Facilitated Design Thinking workshops for students and professors of TU Berlin, fostering innovative solutions for the institution's future, November 2021.