_{BITS ’26 · internships wrapped Jun 2025 · formerly Mercedes-Benz RDI · Xpectrum AI · AIISC @ UofSC · FSIL @ Georgia Tech · shashwatbajpai1729@gmail.com}

Passionate about building AI, ML and technology-driven projects. Continuously learning and exploring new ideas through hands-on development.

_{Research on watermarking and trustworthy ML → Systems on FPGA and ZKP → Product on full-stack and Kaggle. Same thread: make provenance attributable, then make it usable.}

contract-trap-harness — verification-gated redlining for SaaS contracts. Clause extraction, playbook risk, evidence-gated findings. Your newest — the product form of provenance.
_{python · llm-eval}  

evidence-researcher — evidence-first deep research agent. Live search, source eval, claim extraction, contradiction hunting.
_{javascript · gemini}  

Peccavi-text — text watermarking companion to PECCAVI (CVPR 2026). Extends NMP idea to language.
_{python · nlp · watermarking}  

Midjouney-Visual-Paraphase — automation for visual paraphrase attacks (the attack PECCAVI survives). Attack → defense story.
_{python · jupyter}  

Chess-ZynqFPGA — playable FPGA chess on ZedBoard. Monte Carlo AI, VGA board, OLED state. Hardware root of trust.
_{verilog · c · fpga}  

Voting-System — blockchain voting with ZKPs. Anonymous yet verifiable. Attributability without de-anonymization.
_{python · zkp · solidity}  

Playground — Kaggle · shashwat1729 — notebooks and competitions where I test ideas fast and bring learnings back to research. _{python · pytorch · eda}  

_{More: Detection_Papers (curated watermark/detection survey, 3★) · SEC-Edgar 10-K (LLMs over 10-Ks) · Cybersecurity Threat Detection (7★, most starred)}

• PECCAVI: Visual Paraphrase Attack-Safe Watermarking — Denver — arXiv · Project · Poster
• The Brittleness of AI Image Watermarking — Philadelphia — arXiv
• Visual Counter Turing Test (VCT²) — Mumbai — ACL
• Defactify 4.0 — unified image & text detection — Workshop
• Findings of the CTT — text · image

_{Python · PyTorch · C++ · Docker · JavaScript · TypeScript · React · Solidity}

Jun 2025 — Research Intern · Mercedes-Benz R&D India
Mar–Jun 2025 — Software Engineer · Xpectrum AI
Sep 2023–Jun 2025 — Research Intern · AIISC, UofSC
May–Sep 2024 — Research Assistant · FSIL, Georgia Tech
May–Jul 2023 — Summer Intern · Ministry of Rural Development, GoI
2021–26 — B.E. ECE & M.Sc. Economics · BITS Pilani Hyderabad

_{Focus: watermarking · trustworthy ML · vision · FPGA · ZKP · full-stack}

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