Powering a safe digital future through translational research in AI and cybersecurity

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What is an FRO?

SPARC is a mission-focused autonomous research organization built to develop foundational technologies that ensure a secure and sovereign digital future.

As India’s first Focused Research Organization (FRO) dedicated to advancing the state of the art in cybersecurity and AI, SPARC brings together deep research and engineered systems to lay the foundation the nation needs for the next era of AI-driven critical infrastructure.

SPARC is uniquely positioned to drive breakthroughs at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI to support a safer, more resilient digital future for India and beyond.
Large Scale effort
(industrial R&D)
Focused teams
(startups)
Not for profit
(academic labs)

A new model for translational research

Focused Research Organizations (FROs) represent a new class of autonomous, not-for-profit institutions designed to take on problems of strategic importance that require focused and coordinated effort, and can unlock significant socio-economic value.

FROs focus on a series of high-impact missions. Each mission unites researchers, engineers and domain experts around a clearly defined goal with measurable milestones and real-world value.

At SPARC, this model gives us the ability to move fast, stay focused and create breakthroughs that strengthen India’s long-term technological capabilities in critical AI infrastructure.

Our missions
Secure and Sovereign AI Infrastructure

Build AI infrastructure that is secure by design and sovereign at every layer.

As AI begins to underpin defence, healthcare, finance and other critical sectors, nations need infrastructure that is independently verifiable, resilient to advanced threats and free from opaque dependencies. SPARC addresses this by developing the core capabilities required to secure and govern next-generation AI systems.

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Super Efficient AI

Cost and energy-efficient systems that deliver capabilities required by emerging and economically significant workloads.

SPARC offers a national program on SEA that affirms that innovation, cost, ands sustainability are not opposing goals, but mutually reinforcing ones. By elevating efficiency to a core principle of AI policy it ensures that AI contributes to long-term national prosperity rather than undermining it.

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Our focus areas include:
Confidential computing that isolates sensitive workloads even from privileged attackers

Cryptographically verifiable cloud architectures that provide sovereignty beyond policy or trust

Sovereign hardware roots-of-trust with transparent supply chains
Secure, attested agentic systems designed for integrity at scale
Collaborations
We collaborate with government agencies, cloud providers, hardware partners, AI companies and peer labs to co-design, test and validate secure and sovereign AI infrastructure.
Careers
SPARC is built around a strong team of researchers, engineers and technologists who combine academic depth with industry-grade engineering. As a founding cohort, they define the standards, culture and impact of the lab.
Join our mission-driven team
SPARC brings together researchers, engineers and technologists who thrive on solving national-scale challenges in confidential computing, AI security, secure hardware and sovereign cloud systems. Our culture is collaborative, curious and purpose-driven – built for people who want to push boundaries witness real-world impact.
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Let’s collaborate and co-create
We work with government agencies, philanthropic funders, cloud service providers, hardware partners and AI companies to advance sovereign computing capabilities. If you’re interested in supporting or partnering on our missions, we welcome the conversation.

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