Cyber Tech Lead
Singapore University of Technology and Design
shrivastava_siddhant@sutd.edu.sg
Siddhant Shrivastava is a security researcher, leader, (socio)technologist, communitarian, and educator with extensive experience in the cybersecurity of critical infrastructures. He plays a lead role in advancing cyber-physical security systems design (attack/defence technologies), developing operational technology training infrastructure, twin/ testbed deployment, and local/international collaborations at iTrust. Prior to iTrust, he has worked in various areas of computer science and finance at Goldman Sachs, electronics, design, and artificial intelligence at the MIT Media Lab, Indian Space Research Organization, the Mars City Project, and Python Software Foundation (under the Google Summer of Code program). He received his B.E.(Hons.) in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
As a cyber tech lead, Siddhant helps conduct annual cyber exercises such as iTrust’s CISS (Critical Infrastructure Security Showdown). He also contributes to national exercises such as CIDEX (Critical Infrastructure Defence Exercise) and international exercises such as NATO CCDCOE’s Locked Shields and Crossed Swords. He has contributed to these exercises as an organiser, judge, attacker, defender, instructor, and collaborator since 2019. Along with his colleagues, he routinely hosts uniformed officers, leaders, company representatives, diplomats, and ministers. As a cyber training lead, Siddhant helps conduct training courses for OT Cybersecurity for varying audiences from C-Suite executives to critical infrastructure operators government agencies (for water, power, gas, and maritime systems). He helped conduct a 2-day training on maritime cybersecurity during the Singapore Maritime Week in 2025 for representatives from various shipping companies on behalf of the Maritime Port Authority in Singapore. His work has contributed to the National Satellite of Excellence in Cybersecurity program under the National Research Foundation (NRF, Prime Minister’s Office), Project CARBO under Ministry of Defence, and Cyber Security Agency’s (CSA’s) Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan 2024.
He has been invited to present his work on virtual reality-enabled cyber twins at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, ETH Zurich, and the Department of Homeland Security, USA. His patented work has been published in a Springer book titled Cyberdefense: The Next Generation. He has received various coveted awards at international conferences and at SUTD for his accolades. In his personal capacity, he stewards communitarian activities in the region as well and co-founded DesignSG – the largest community of designers in Singapore with more than 3400 members, as well as ProductSG. He also serves in the Executive Committee (ExCo) of Better.SG (a tech for good charity) as the Tech Partnerships lead.
Siddhant frequently publishes and speaks at security, technology, government, and education conferences, where he shares his knowledge in security by design, safety, leadership, and effective peer learning. He routinely participates in hackathons as a judge and hacker and has won several national and international hackathons. He is invited as an expert for the Channel News Asia’s cybersecurity episodes to demonstrate the impact of Artificial Intelligence on Smart Homes and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Through his ongoing contributions in applied research, government/industry partnerships, and training, Siddhant continues to encourage the next generation of security-curious professionals while supporting Singapore’s de facto position as a global hub for sociotechnological mindshare.