Siddharth Srivastava, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE) at Arizona State University (ASU). Prof. Srivastava was a Staff Scientist at the United Technologies Research Center in Berkeley. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the RUGS group at the University of California Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research interests include robotics and AI, with a focus on reasoning, planning, and acting under uncertainty. His work on integrated task and motion planning for household robotics has received coverage from international news media. His dissertation work received a “Best Paper” award at the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) and an Outstanding Dissertation award from the Department of Computer Science at UMass Amherst.