Siddharth Srivastava

Hi! My name is Sid, I am a PhD student (2024 - Present) under the supervision of Prof. Till BretschneiderLink opens in a new window within The Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (SBIDER)Link opens in a new window and the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell BiologyLink opens in a new window.

Research Interests

My research focusses on deep generative models for data augmentation on 2D, 3D, and 3D+Time bioimage datasets; augmenting small, hand-annotated 'gold-standard' datasets into large, diverse, balanced, synthetic 'silver-standard datasets'. We aim to leverage these silver-standard datasets to improve downstream model performance trained on these large datasets, a task that would otherwise be challenging on small datasets.

Keywords: deep generative models, cellular image synthesis, segmentation, object detection, dataset augmentation

Publications

• High-Quality Synthetic Annotated Tissue Data Using Conditional Generative Adversarial NetworksLink opens in a new window
  • (Preprint) Under Review.
• A Data Augmentation Pipeline for Generation of Diverse Tissue Images and their Corresponding Segmentation MasksLink opens in a new window
  • (Oral) Microscience Microscopy Congress 2025 - Quantitative Analysis and Modelling.

Education

• PhD Candidate, University of Warwick - Sep 2024 - Present
• MSc (Distinction) in Advanced Computing, Imperial College London - Sep 2023 - Sep 2024
  • Thesis: Physics-Informed Factor Graphs for Learning in Complex Dynamical Systems
• BSc (First Class Honours) in Computer Science, University of Warwick - Sep 2020 - July 2023
  
  • Thesis: Augmentation of Cellular Images using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

I have also attended the following summer schools:

• Mediterranean Machine Learning Summer School (September 2025) - University of Split, Croatia;
• Theoretical Foundations of Machine Learning (June 2025) - Machine Learning Genoa Center, Italy.

Teaching

Alongside my research, I have also been a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the following modules:

2024/2025:

• Term 1 - CS260 Algorithms Link opens in a new window
• Term 2 - CS147 Discrete Mathematics and its Applications IILink opens in a new window

2025/2026:

• Term 1 - CS132 Computer Organisation and ArchitectureLink opens in a new window

Contact

Email:

siddharth <dot> srivastava <at> warwick <dot> ac <dot> uk

Room:

MB5.28 Mathematical Sciences Building