About Me
I am Harshvardhan Takawale, a third year computer science PhD student at the University of Maryland College Park working at iCoSMoS Lab with Prof. Nirupam Roy.
My research envisions to enable advanced Acoustic and RF sensing and inference on wearable and low-power computing platforms embedded in everyday objects and environments. It aims to introduce new capabilities to these resource-constrained and intermittently-powered systems perceive
advanced features for interactions through gestures, micro-motions, directions, and physical contexts for various environment sensing applications.
Recently, I interned at Nokia Bell Labs UK in the Pervasive Systems group on detecting audiotory attention on earables. In the past, I have worked as a Lead Researcher at Silence Laboratories Singapore. I finished my B.E at BITS Pilani in August 2020.
Research interests: Wearable sensing, Acoustics, Multimodal Imaging, Physics-informed Machine Learning, Ubiquitous Healthcare
My CV can be found here.
Recent Updates
10-24 : Served as an External Reviewer for CHI 2025.
10-24 : I presented our UBICOMP 2024 paper "Scribe: Simultaneous Voice and Handwriting Interface" at Melbourne, Australia [Post] [Presentation]
09-24 : Submitted my Summer Internship Project "Towards Detecting Auditory Attention from in-Ear Muscle Contractions using Commodity Earbuds" at ICASSP 2025.
06-24 : I'll be serving as Publicity and Social Media Chair at HumanSys 2024 workshop co-located with SenSys 2024.
05-24 : I'll be joining Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge as a Reseach Intern in Summer 2024.
04-24 : I presented our ICASSP 2024 paper "Learning Speaker-Listener Mutual Head Orientation by Leveraging HRTF and Voice Directivity on Headphones" at Seoul, Korea [Post]
10-23 : Our paper "Learning Speaker-Listener Mutual Head Orientation by Leveraging HRTF and Voice Directivity on Headphones" is accepted at ICASSP 2024.
10-23 : Our paper "Scribe: Simultaneous Voice and Handwriting Interface" is accepted at IMWUT 2024.
04-23 : I served on the Artifact Evaluation committee of ACM MobiSys 2023.
04-23 : Our paper "Structure Assisted Spectrum Sensing for Low-power Acoustic Event Detection" is accepted at IASA CPS IoT Week 2023.
03-23 : Received Dean's Fellowship at UMD Computer Science
02-23 : Our poster "Natural Voice Interface for the Next Generation of Smart Spaces" is accepted at ACM HotMobile 2022.
03-22 : I served on the Replicability committee of WiSec 2022.
03-22 : Received Dean's Fellowship at UMD Computer Science
03-22 : I'll be joining Prof. Nirupam Roy at University of Maryland Computer Science (UMDCS) as a Ph.D student in Fall 2022.
12-21 : Our paper "A Seamless Second-Factor Verification as a Mobility-Service for Future Commute Stations" is accepted at ACM HotMobile 2022
Publications
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Title: Heterogeneous Object Volumetric Imaging with MMwave and Acoustic Signals
via Circular Inverse Synthetic Aperture
Authors: Harshvardhan Takawale, Nirupam Roy
Venue: Under submission -
Title: Towards Detecting Auditory Attention from in-Ear Muscle Contractions using
Commodity Earbuds
Authors: Harshvardhan Takawale, Yang Liu, Khaldoon Al-Naimi, Fahim Kawsar, Alessandro Montanari
Venue: (Under Review) ICASSP 2025
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Title: Learning Speaker-Listener Mutual Head Orientation by Leveraging HRTF and
Voice Directivity on Headphones
Authors: Harshvardhan Takawale, Nirupam Roy
Venue: ICASSP 2024 [PDF] -
Title: Scribe: Simultaneous Voice and Handwriting Interface
Authors: Yang Bai, Irtaza Shahid Harshvardhan Takawale and Nirupam Roy
Venue: IMWUT 2024 [PDF][Slides] -
Title: Structure Assisted Spectrum Sensing for Low-power Acoustic Event Detection
Authors: Nakul Garg, Harshvardhan Takawale, Yang Bai, Irtaza Shahid and Nirupam Roy
Venue: IASA CPS IoT Week 2023 [PDF] -
Title: Poster: Natural Voice Interface for the Next Generation of Smart Spaces
Authors: Yang Bai, Nakul Garg, Harshvardhan Takawale, Anupam Das and Nirupam Roy
Venue: ACM HotMobile 2023 [PDF] -
Title: Malware Detection on Highly Imbalanced Data through Sequence Modeling
Authors: Rajvardhan Oak, Min Du, David Yan, Harshvardhan Takawale and Idan Amit
Venue: ACM AISec 2019 [PDF] -
Title: A Seamless Second-Factor Verification as a Mobility-Service for Future Commute Stations
Authors: Harshvardhan Takawale, et al.
Venue: ACM HotMobile 2022 [PDF] -
Title: Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm for Mesh based NoC using Reinforcement Learn-
ing
Authors: Jagadheesh Samala, Harshvardhan Takawale, Yash Chokhani, P Veda Bhanu, J Soumya
Venue: VDAT 2020 [PDF] -
Title: Talos App: On-Device Machine Learning Using TensorFlow to Detect Android
Malware
Authors: Harshvardhan Takawale and Abhishek Thakur
Venue: IoTSMS 2018 [PDF]
Project Portfolio
- All
- Signal Processing
- Wireless Networks
- Acoustics
- Localization
- Machine Learning
- Security
Contact
Location:
IRB 3245
Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Email:
htakawal@umd.edu
Schedule a meeting:
Call:
+1 (240)-854-8549