← Pranav Bhave

Pranav Bhave

Cloud security × AI-assurance research. I build research software that exposes what an AI-assurance claim establishes, what it assumes, and where it must stop.

In ninety seconds

Penn State CS ’26 (Cybersecurity minor), AWS CCP + AI Practitioner. My research question: what do composed AI guardrails actually guarantee when their joint behavior was never measured? My flagship, CC-Framework, answers with Fréchet–Hoeffding bounds and claim governance — see the five-minute case study. At Penn State's S2 Lab I build Ghost-Ark, a verifier for the provenance limits of AI-governance receipts. Every claim on my site carries its evidence or says it can't — the evidence ledger has the bindings.

Research

Aug — Dec 2025 · Pennsylvania State University

Independent research — LLM safety guardrail composition (IST 496)

Supervised by Dr. Peng Liu. Reinforcement, interference, and dependence-driven failure in composed LLM safety systems using probabilistic bounds and copula-family reasoning. CC-Framework is the primary deliverable, with theorem notes, research memos, and architecture documentation.

Jan — May 2025 · Pennsylvania State University

Research assistant — logic & verification tooling

Python CNF-conversion tooling for SAT-solving and logical-verification workflows; evaluation of LLM-assisted formalization of natural-language logic — translation reliability, ambiguity handling, verification-readiness.

Selected projects

2025 — present · Python, statistics, reproducibility

CC-Framework — dependence-aware AI assurance

In development · S2 Lab, Penn State · AWS, TypeScript

Ghost-Ark — provenance limits of AI-governance receipts

Early stage · AWS Nitro Enclaves

Assay — enclave-attested media processing (private)

2026 · React/Vite · security ML

Ghost Visualizer · GCE · security-ML experiments

Education & certifications

May 2026 · University Park, PA

Pennsylvania State University — B.S. Computer Science, minor in Cybersecurity

Coursework: computer security, operating systems, data structures, algorithms, statistical inference, theory of computation.

Certified · in progress

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · AWS Certified AI Practitioner

SAA-C03 and Security — Specialty in progress. Verification IDs available on request.

Skills

Cloud / AWS
IAM, S3, VPC, EC2, CloudWatch, Lambda, API Gateway, AWS Budgets, Bedrock-oriented architecture, Terraform basics, Nitro Enclaves (research)
AI / ML security
Guardrail composition, safety-stack evaluation, threat modeling, privacy auditing, intrusion detection, backdoor evaluation, ASR analysis
Programming
Python, Java, C/C++, SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript; NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow
Practice
Reproducible experiments, claim governance, technical writing, Git, Linux, React, Node.js

Phone number deliberately omitted from the open web — email me and I’ll send the full PDF résumé. Biographical claims on this page are owner-attested; see the evidence ledger for what that means here.