Sidh Sikka

Sidh Sikka is a Ph.D. student in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, where he researches autonomy, optimization, and multi-agent coordination for orbital robotics. He earned his B.S. in Astrophysics with a minor in Mathematics from UCLA. Sidh is also the cofounder of Manifold Research Group, an open, distributed institute building a new model for frontier research in areas such as multimodal AI, generative biology, and swarm robotics. His broader goal is to advance autonomous, free-flying robotic swarms capable of assembling and managing large-scale orbital infrastructure, laying the groundwork for a sustainable, industrial economy in space. A relentless technological optimist, he hopes to see a future where humans live among the stars.