Shruti Agarwal

Shruti Agarwal

Research Scientist

San Jose, CA

I’m a research scientist in AI for Content Authenticity team. My primary research interest lies in multimedia forensics, image analysis, machine learning, and computer vision.

Previously, I was a postdoc at CSAIL with Bill Freeman. Simultaneously, I was also working as a Lecturer for Computer Vision course in MIDS program at Berkeley School of Information. I did my PhD from CS department of UC Berkeley advised by Prof. Hany Farid.

Publications

News

TokenTrace at CVPR 2026: Tracing Creative Influence in Generative AI 

TokenTrace embeds lightweight watermarks into training tokens associated with visual concepts. When the model later generates an image, TokenTrace can recover traces of these watermarked signals, allowing researchers to identify which concepts most strongly contributed to the output. 

June 2, 2026

Restoring Trust and Empowering Artists with Content Credentials

Adobe Research Scientist Shruti Agarwal is tackling misinformation by empowering artists and consumers with Content Credentials. Discover how her innovative research, from deepfake detection to invisible watermarking, is restoring trust in the digital world.

March 19, 2025