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Education, experience, awards, teaching, service, and patents. A full PDF version is available below.

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Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science — University of Maryland, College Park  ·  2022 – present Advisor: Dr. Nirupam Roy

B.E. in Electrical and Electronics (Minor in Data Science) — Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani  ·  2016 – 2020

Experience

Dolby Laboratories, San Francisco  ·  Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 Ph.D. Research Intern — Supervisor: Dr. Phil Brown

  • Modelling car-cabin acoustic frequency-response fields with implicit neural representations.

Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK  ·  Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 Ph.D. Research Intern — Supervisors: Dr. Fahim Kawsar, Dr. Alessandro Montanari

  • Detecting auditory attention from in-ear muscle contractions using commodity earbuds.

Silence Laboratories @ SUTD, Singapore  ·  Jul 2020 – Jul 2022 Lead Researcher — Founders: Prof. Tony Q. S. Quek, Dr. Jay Prakash, Andrei Bytes

  • Co-location-based seamless authentication for mobility services.
  • Landmark extraction from infrastructure for indoor mobility claim verification.
  • Real-time gesture tracking for passwordless login.

Cyber Security Research Centre @ NTU, Singapore  ·  Jan 2020 – Jul 2020 Research Intern — Supervisors: Prof. Thambipillai Srikanthan, Asst. Prof. Lam Siew Kei

  • Side-channel-assisted anomaly detection for embedded platforms (undergraduate thesis).

EECS @ U.C. Berkeley  ·  Jun 2019 – Sep 2019 Remote Researcher — Lab PI: Prof. Dawn Song; Project head: Dr. Min Du

  • Malware detection on highly imbalanced data through sequence modeling.

School of Computer Science @ University of Windsor, Canada  ·  May 2019 – Aug 2019 Security Research Intern — Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Saeed Samet

  • Integrating continuous authentication into personal health record applications.

Awards & Achievements

  • Financial Aid Award, ICML 2026.
  • Gold Reviewer Award, ICML 2026.
  • Dolby University Graduate Researcher Funding.
  • NSF I-Corps program — Entrepreneurial Lead.
  • Principal Investigator, Seed Award Program — Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM).
  • University of Maryland Graduate School Dean’s Fellowship (2022–23 and 2023–24).
  • Fully-funded semester-long internship at Nanyang Technological University for undergraduate thesis.
  • Mitacs GRI Scholar — selected among 700 from a pool of 200,000+ applicants for a fully-funded research internship in Canada (Summer 2019).
  • National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholarship, Government of India (1,000 of 5,000,000+ participants).
  • First place, Urban Livability Challenge 2019 Hackathon (eGovernments Foundation).
  • Runner-up, Megathon 2018 Hackathon.
  • National Winner, CBSE Heritage India Quiz (8,000+ participating teams).

Patents

  • Spatial Acoustic Perception on Miniature Computing Devices. Yang Bai, Nakul Garg, Nirupam Roy, Ayushi Mishra, Priyadarshan Narayanasamy, Harshvardhan Takawale. US Patent.
  • Auditory Attention Detection From In-Ear Muscle Contractions Using Commodity Earbuds. Harshvardhan Takawale, Yang Bai, Alessandro Montanari. US Patent (Technology Disclosure Submitted).
  • Second-Factor Authentication for Mobility: Ways to Identify Friendly Frauds. Jay Prakash, Harshvardhan Takawale, Tony Quek. Singapore Patent (Technology Disclosure Submitted).

Teaching

  • CMSC436 — Programming Handheld Systems (Spring 2025), Prof. Michael Marsh.
  • CMSC422 — Introduction to Machine Learning (Spring 2023), Prof. Mohammad Nayeem Teli.
  • CMSC122 — Introduction to Computer Programming via the Web (Fall 2022), Prof. Pedram Sadeghian.

Service

  • Web Chair, HumanSys 2025.
  • Publicity and Social Media Chair, HumanSys 2024.
  • Program Committee, ACM S3 2023.
  • Artifact Evaluation Committee, ACM MobiSys 2023.
  • Replicability Committee, ACM WiSec 2022.
  • External Reviewer, CHI 2025.