Sid Lamichhane
About Me
I am a Student Research Assistant at the Service-centric Networking Lab (SNET) of Technical University 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.
After completing my Master’s in Data Science and Engineering, I aim to combine my expertise in AI with my research at SNET to advance the evolving field of Trustworthy AI. In a world where AI plays an ever-growing role in shaping our lives, ensuring its trustworthiness is essential for safeguarding democratic values such as privacy, accountability, and the decentralization of power.
Research Interests
- Decentralized Identity: Decentralized Identifiers, Verifiable Credentials, Self-sovereign Identity
- Decentralized Systems Engineering: Blockchain, InterPlanetary File System, Multiparty Computation
- Trustworthy AI: zkML, Zero-knowledge Proof, Personhood Credentials, Decentralized Federated Learning, Homomorphic Encryption, Differential Privacy
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).
- [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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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. -
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 -
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 -
LINK
Hackathon project exploring tokenization of data ownership using Chainlink (LINK), aimed at ensuring fair data access and usage, Fall 2022. -
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
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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.About Scholarship award
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Crash course on Design Thinking and how to teach it to your team, 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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Designing and conducting structured 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.