Dr. Drishti YADAV

Drishti Yadav is a Postdoctoral Researcher/Research Associate at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg. Dr Yadav works with the Software Verification and Validation (SVV) group.

Her research primarily revolves around fault-based testing and verification of safety-critical cyber-physical systems. She is also interested in control systems engineering and optimisation in general, with a soft spot for metaheuristics.

She undertook a three-month research visit from February to April 2024 at the Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication (DISCo), University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, under the supervision of Prof Leonardo Mariani.

She was awarded the “KUWI Grant” of TU Wien in 2024, for diploma and PhD theses and attending specialist courses abroad as part of her research. In 2023, she was recognised as a “TUW Under 30” honouree, listed among TU Wien’s 30 most exciting people below 30 years with exceptional achievements.

She worked as a University Assistant in the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) research group at the Faculty of Informatics, TU Wien, from October 2020 to October 2024. She joined the University of Luxembourg in March 2025.

She received her B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekananda Technical University, Bhilai, India in 2017, and her M.Tech (Master of Technology) degree in Control and Instrumentation Engineering from Dr B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India in 2020. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria in November 2024, under the supervision of Prof Ezio Bartocci.