Shashwat Bajpai — AI Researcher & Software Engineer
Shashwat Bajpai is a software engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India and an AI researcher based at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Shashwat Bajpai's research focuses on AI watermarking, visual paraphrasing attacks, AI-generated content detection, and trustworthy machine learning systems. Shashwat Bajpai has been published at top-tier venues including CVPR 2026, AAAI 2025, and IJCNLP 2025.
Education
- BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus — B.E. in Electronics & Communication Engineering & M.Sc. in Economics (2021–2026)
- City Montessori School, Lucknow — ISC (98.75%), ICSE (94.4%)
Work Experience
- Software Engineer — Mercedes-Benz R&D India (Jul 2025–Present)
- Software Engineer — Xpectrum AI (Mar–Jun 2025)
- Research Intern — AIISC, University of South Carolina (Sep 2023–Jul 2025)
- Research Assistant — FSIL, Georgia Tech (May–Sep 2024)
- Summer Intern — Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India (May–Jul 2023)
Research Publications
- PECCAVI: Visual Paraphrase Attack-Safe Watermarking — CVPR 2026, Denver, CO, USA. Read Paper
- Visual Counter Turing Test (VCT²) — IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India. Read Paper
- AI Watermarking Brittleness Study — AAAI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Read Paper
- Defactify 4.0: AI Image & Text Detection — AAAI 2025 Workshop (PMLR). Workshop
- Findings of the Counter Turing Test — AAAI 2026 Workshop (PMLR). Text Detection | Image Detection
Technical Skills
Languages: Python, JavaScript, C++, TypeScript, Solidity, R
ML/AI: PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenCV, LangChain, Transformers, LoRA, Diffusion Models
Web: React, Node.js, Express, Next.js, HTML/CSS
Tools: Git, Docker, AWS, GCP, Weights & Biases
Contact
Email: shashwat@bajpai.co.in
Shashwat Bajpai  Profiles & Links
LinkedIn | GitHub | Google Scholar | X/Twitter | Hugging Face | ResearchGate | OpenReview | ACL Anthology | Semantic Scholar | AD Scientific Index | CSAuthors | Defactify Workshop
Shashwat Bajpai  Research Publications
- PECCAVI: Visual Paraphrase Attack-Safe Watermarking  CVPR 2026, Denver, CO, USA. arXiv | Project Page
- Visual Counter Turing Test (VCT²)  IJCNLP-AACL 2025, Mumbai, India. ACL Anthology
- AI Watermarking Brittleness Study  AAAI 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA. arXiv
- Defactify 4.0: AI Image & Text Detection  AAAI 2025 Workshop (PMLR). Workshop
- Findings of the Counter Turing Test  AAAI 2026 Workshop (PMLR). Text | Image
- PECCAVI: Paraphrase-Safe Text Watermarking  Submitted to AAAI 2027. Project Page
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Contact Shashwat Bajpai
Email: shashwat@bajpai.co.in | shashwatbajpai1729@gmail.com