Siddhi Advani, PhD

Driven by improving patient outcomes. Dev Bio-Bioengg-Skin microbiome | #DeSci | #SheFi14

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

We'll see the emergence of traveling scientists as a movement.

[Dánae @DanaedLabs]

#DeSci is not just about publishing — it’s about building the infrastructure science needs.

Online and remote laboratories are part of that shift: enabling trustless, global access to experimentation through smart contracts and decentralized protocols.
#OpenScience

[RajGM @RajGM_Hacks]

🎯 2025 Recap: The Year of People & Scale

🚀 This year wasn’t about comfort.
It was about bold leaps and deep collaboration.

Here’s how it unfolded

🌟 January
Started the year at UT Austin.
Accepted into UC Berkeley’s AI Safety program.
Excited — with no idea what the year would truly demand.

🧠 February
A deeply transformational phase at ZuGrama.
Unlearned more than I learned.
Pure growth chaos.

✈️ March
Admitted to TUM Munich 🇩🇪.
New country. Higher stakes. Endless questions.

📈 April–June
Worked as a Growth Engineering Consultant.
Learned how real systems scale —
and how they often break right before they do.

🛫 July
Moved to Munich.
Crushed hackathons
Then took the leap: went all-in on TUM AI research.

🔬 August
Chose research over predictability.
• Secured initial funding
• Onboarded volunteers
• Built a co-researcher team
• Collaborated with researchers from MIT, Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and Oxford
• Hardest call: compressed my MSc into 1 year instead of 2

🧪 September
Released a large-scale LLM misinformation propagation study.
31,500+ API calls.
Real simulations at scale — no toy demos.

📊 October
Completed an empirical audit of bias in Vision–Language Models.
Designed a 40,000+ respondent study.
Approved as my Master’s thesis

🏆 November
Advanced AI governance & policy research using multi-agent systems.
Honored with an Outstanding Paper Award at CIKM.

🌱 December
Built data collection pipelines for low-literacy, ultra-constrained settings.
Amplifying voices usually left out
And quietly… after a long wait — big news from @lossfunk 🎉

Eternally grateful to my mentors and collaborators:
Dr. @sid_advani (for iterating with me relentlessly)
@YeshodharaB , (for bringing people together when it mattered most at ZuGrama)
and many more — thank you for the guidance, time, and belief 🙏

Massive thanks to 60+ volunteers on the VLM stereotype study and 21 leaders who amplified participation from rural and underrepresented communities across India 🇮🇳

⚡ 2025 taught me: collaboration compounds.
🌎 2026 is about tangible, world-changing outcomes.

[The Postdoctoral @thepostdoctoral]

Mayo Clinic hosts global “hackathon” to solve medical mysteries - MPR News - ... a professor of biomedical informatics at Mayo Clinic. “If we can ... assistant professor in laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic. - https://t.co/yAzx0tW1Df

[Jonah Lau @jonahlau_]

Don't hire from crypto. Hire from the industries crypto is disrupting. They understand the problems you're solving better than any crypto native.

I've seen this pattern repeatedly across portfolio companies.

The best DeFi hires come from traditional finance as they've spent years frustrated with settlement times, cross-border payments, and outdated clearing systems.

When they see blockchain solutions, they immediately understand the value because they've lived with the pain

Gaming industry people make the best GameFi and metaverse builders. They understand user psychology, engagement loops, and virtual economies in ways that crypto people trying to gamify everything completely miss

EdTech professionals naturally grasp learn-to-earn mechanics because they've been thinking about learning incentives long before tokens existed.

Supply chain experts can immediately spot the inefficiencies that logistics protocols are trying to solve

Meanwhile, crypto natives often understand the technology but miss the nuances of the real-world problems they're trying to address.

They build solutions for theoretical pain points instead of actual user needs.

Industry veterans bring something crypto natives can't: deep knowledge of what's actually broken and needs fixing.

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

@wideloache Awesome! Yes—would love to chat to know more.

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

Loved this! Any thoughts on integrating imaging data?

[Will DeLoache @wideloache]

@SynBio1 @SynBio1 Couldn't agree more... so much so that I left research to try to develop a better solution. I'd love to get your thoughts on the approach we're taking at Tabulous (https://t.co/ThG5fIXIGV).

[shefi 💫 @shefiorg]

Today, we had our last class of Season 14. ✨

Thank you to all of you for showing up and giving it your all. We couldn't be more proud.

Here is a compilation of our group photos from the past 8 weeks, including today's.

Remember, this isn't goodbye. It's see ya later. 💫

[Nicole Edwards @nicoleedwds]

New Xenopus community lore unlocked at the #IXC25 @frogwranglers @ExrcXenopus

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

@MBLScience My first thought was: how did you get the octopus down for a nap????

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

@MBLScience Awesome! Is this seen in both adults and juvenile octopodes?

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

@MBLScience Awesome! Is this seen in both adults and juvenile octopodes?

[Developmental Biology @Dev_Bio_Journal]

#DBfeature #InMemoriam
Remembering Dr. Paul Kulesa's (1962–2025) pioneering work on neural crest development, which has profoundly impacted neuroscience & pediatric cancer. A huge loss to the DB community. His recent work on chick & mouse neural crest.
https://t.co/o3cHbUy0GL

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

@salmanneedsajob Nice!!!

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

@LoLoCoding from @MidnightNtwrk talking about her career pivot, giving timely career advice, telling us about upcoming ideathons. That our ideas are currency. That we could get paired with interested developers. Everything I needed! @maggielove_ @shefiorg 🙏🥹💝

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

Here for the essays and the art!

[swickie ✨ @Swickie]

💌 Thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting my @thisbodyisbeta journey.

Starting to look like a real stack, huh? Writing makes me so happy. I hope you are learning cool things w me. We're gonna start getting into some crazy shyte soon.

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

Looking forward to meeting the #SheFi baddies at #Ethereum10 celebration in Mumbai!

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

Looking forward to the celebration and meeting more of the amazing @shefi, @ethmumbai, and @ETHGlobal community on Ethereum’s 10-year anniversary! #Ethereum10 #Ethereum #SheFi

[ETHMumbai @ethmumbai]

Celebrating 10 years of @ethereum 🔥

Join ETHMumbai and @ETHGlobal for an evening exploring Ethereum's journey. We'll discuss cyberpunk, privacy, and everything decentralised.

See you on 30th 😎
https://t.co/pv6N7ln9fc

[Davide Castelvecchi @dcastelvecchi]

This story by my colleague Miryam Naddaf blew my mind. I am old enough to remember when sub-nanometer resolution was pretty good _even for electron microscopes_
https://t.co/b8NFCRx1Vy

[João Pedro de Magalhães @jpsenescence]

New preprint with our list of 100 open problems in ageing science.

Our curated list captures both long-standing fundamental questions and emerging research frontiers.

A massive team effort by >30 researchers from many disciplines in biogerontology.

https://t.co/rWEfayd4Ft

[Siddhi Advani, PhD @sid_advani]

@HashedEM I'd love to see how this empowers DAOs (especially those looking to build the DeSci movement in India)