Projects & Research
From blockchain development to financial research—explore FAAST innovative projects
Machine Learning Team
Mule Account Detection System
End-to-end anomaly detection pipeline to identify mule accounts across 7.4M+ banking transactions for the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub. Implements temporal feature extraction for 12 known laundering typologies including dormant activation, structuring below ₹50K thresholds, rapid pass-through velocity, and fan-in/fan-out graph patterns. Scored on AUC-ROC with temporal IoU for suspicious activity window precision.
Intelli-Credit Decisioning Engine
Multi-agent AI system for automated corporate credit appraisal that ingests unstructured data from PDF annual reports, GST filings, bank statements, and MCA filings. Features a Research Agent for real-time web-scale secondary intelligence and a Recommendation Engine generating explainable Credit Appraisal Memos scored on the Five Cs framework.
Quant & Crypto Team
FAAST Payment System
A Web3 wallet prototype built using React, Ethers.js v6, and Polygon Amoy Testnet, designed to deliver Phantom-grade user experience for decentralized transactions with real-time on-chain balance retrieval and secure ERC-20 transfers.
FAAST QuantForge
A systematic trading platform that compares multiple strategies such as the Leverage Based Strategy, SMA Crossover Strategy, and others, with full backtesting capabilities and performance metrics evaluated against market benchmarks.
Research & Analytics
Hybrid Modeling of Financial Volatility
A Hybrid EGARCH-TCN-Attention Model for daily portfolio risk assessment, combining volatility modeling, temporal feature extraction, and attention-based correlation analysis to estimate extreme negative returns.
Financial Time-Series Analysis
Comparative study of tabular and temporal models across different market regimes, enhanced with Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Rabbits Optimization for dynamic ensemble weighting.
Trading & Competition
24 Hour Blitz Competition
A real-time trading challenge where participants traded XAU/USD (Gold) using technical indicators like MACD and RSI, focusing on risk management and trading psychology.
Case Studies
GameStop & Market Efficiency
Analysis of the GameStop phenomenon challenging the Efficient Market Hypothesis, exploring the role of social media and investor sentiment in modern financial markets.
DeFi Accountability
Critical examination of accountability in decentralized finance systems, exploring the challenges of governance, responsibility, and trust in a trustless environment.