Pradyumna Kaushal

I am Pradyumna Kaushal, a third year BTech student at NIT Trichy. I split my time between research and building products around blockchain, cryptography, and cyber physical systems.

I am currently a Researcher at CyberSaR (Cyber Security and Resilience Lab) at KAUST, working on blockchain and security research. Due to confidentiality, I cannot publicly share the exact project details, but the work sits at the intersection of applied cryptography, verifiable systems, and real-world deployments.

My research side focuses on zero knowledge proofs, privacy preserving computation, and digital identity. I work on vehicle and battery passports, carbon accounting for refurbished electronics, and app specific rollups for real world assets. I have held research roles at Matter Motor Works, Complere.xyz, and Miruvor LLC, where I have designed GAIA X style data spaces, Cosmos SDK based L2s, and advanced wallet or escrow primitives.

My builder side covers both Web2 and Web3. I am the founder and core dev behind Medici (https://www.medici.ac), a crypto native student funding platform that runs on Solana and combines escrow, on chain identity, and recurring support for students. I have shipped Ethereum and L2 focused projects at ETHGlobal, including an on chain ML inference layer with ZK proofs, an ENS based event platform (ENSure), and AgentRail, an AI native payment router. I also enjoy classic full stack work and have built analytics dashboards, DeFi research tools, and high throughput backends on AWS.

Outside pure crypto, I work on AR and VR and digital twins. I have built a Unity based VR prototype with distributed encounter-type haptics for Smart India Hackathon, and a Cosmos based supply chain ledger (CosmoTrace) that anchors MES and digital twin events on chain. I like projects where sensors, robots, or vehicles produce messy data and blockchains or ZK systems turn that into verifiable evidence.

On campus I head Blockchain Research at Spider R&D, mentor juniors on Solidity, Rust, Circom, and Noir, and write up my systems as open source repos and papers. My VehiclePassport whitepaper captures how I think: build practical stacks first, then formalise them into something that others can audit and extend.