This page shows achievements of students/interns of our lab.
News Paper Coverage
Our research work on transliteration of Modi script to Devanagari has been covered by the Hindu BusinessLine newspaper on 24-March-2025.
Higher Study/Placement/Internship
Onkar Susladkar (an intern who has published 11 papers in our lab) has got PhD admission offer from MIT-UIUC joint PhD program.
Vidhi Bhatt (a former intern who published 1 paper in my lab) has joined MS in CS at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), USA.
Himanshi (a former intern) has been accepted as a masters student at Georgia Tech, USA.
Abhinav Vasu (a former intern from IIT Ropar) has got his next internship at Texas Instruments.
Tushir Sahu (a former intern) has been accepted as a master student with scholarship at Osaka and Kyushu university (two top universities of Japan).
Abhinaya SB (a former intern) got fully-funded PhD offer from NCSU, USA. She published one paper in my lab.
Sumanth U. (a former intern) got fully-funded PhD offers from U.Michigan, U. Wisconsin Madison USA and EPFL, Switzerland. He had published 3 papers in my lab.
Vandan Gorade got fully-funded PhD offer from Northwestern University, USA. He had published 3 papers during his internship.
Kumud Lakara (a former intern in our lab from Manipal Institute of Technology) got admit in MS at University of Oxford. She had published 2 IEEE conference papers during internship. Congratulations.
Phani Jayanth (a former intern in our lab from IIT Madras) got admit in MS at ETH Zurich. He had published a paper in IEEE TNNLS during internship. Congratulations.
Ananya Mantravadi (an intern in our lab from IIIT Raichur) got admit for MCS at NCSU, USA. She has published one IEEE conference paper during internship. Congratulations.
Sarthak Narayan admitted to Masters at Univ of Toronto; Kakul into MTech CS@IITD, Shreyas into MS at UT Austin, Srishti got job in PolyMage, Himanshi in Micron, Sai Harsh Kottapalli in Microsoft Azure cloud.
Nandan got a PhD admit at New York University. Poonam got a PhD admit at IIT Hyderabad.
Awards
Our paper "Security Implications of Approximation: A Study of Trojan Attacks on Approximate Adders and Multipliers" received the best student paper award at VLSID 2024 (Cash prize of 30K INR).
Our paper "TEFAR: An Efficient Transparent Finer-grained Encryption of Internet Access Artifacts" received the best paper award at COMSNETS India Internet Governance Workshop 2024.
Cheena Singhal , a PhD scholar in Candle research lab has been awarded a University gold medal for meritorious student at State University level (AKTU) in her Mtech programme (2020-2022).
Vishesh Mishra, a PhD student at CSE department, IIT Kanpur has got PMRF fellowship. Vishesh has been doing internship/collaboration in/with CANDLE lab for last 2 years and has published 5 papers with Dr Sparsh.
Yash Jain and Vishu Saxena (BTech students), advised by Dr Sparsh for BTech project, have won the "Best Innovation" award in the “PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION AWARD” scheme at IIT Roorkee. This award was established by 1983 batch of alumni of IIT Roorkee.
2023/07: M. Krishna Chaitanya, whom I advised for MTech thesis, has won the award under the category of Judges' Choice, in the “PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION AWARD” scheme.
Kumud Lakara (UG intern in our lab, studying at Manipal Institute of Technology) was selected as one of the best interns by the SPARK committee (IIT Roorkee) in year 2021. 9 interns from IITR were selected as the best and Kumud is one of them.
Maruthi got the cloud innovator of the year award. Congratulations.