Harshvardhan Takawale

Harshvardhan Takawale is a third-year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Maryland College Park, affiliated with the iCoSMoS Lab under Prof. Nirupam Roy. He has previously worked as a Lead Researcher at Silence Laboratories Singapore and interned at Nokia Bell Labs UK and Cambridge.

• Education: B.E. in Computer Science from BITS Pilani (2020), currently pursuing PhD at UMD.

Research Interests: Focus on enabling acoustic and RF sensing on low-power wearable platforms, gesture/micro-motion detection for smart environments, and physics-informed ML for context-aware systems. His work bridges hardware constraints with advanced inference for ubiquitous healthcare and mobility services.

Recent Publications: Contributions to wearable interfaces (Scribe), auditory attention detection on earables, and low-power acoustic event sensing highlight his expertise in multimodal systems and signal processing. Earlier works span cybersecurity (malware detection), NoC fault tolerance, and continuous authentication.

Scientific Awards:

• Dean's Fellowship at UMD Computer Science (2022, 2023).

Roles & Projects: Interned at Nokia Bell Labs on earable-based attention detection; led Silence Laboratories' projects on co-location authentication (>92% accuracy) and landmark extraction for proof-of-visit. Also served as Publicity Chair for HumanSys 2024.