New Gartner® report — Reality Defender is named a Market Shaper in deepfake detection, as of June 2026.

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Team

Gaurav
Bharaj

Reality Defender, Co-founder

Gaurav is one of the co-founders of Reality Defender. Before that, he was VP of Research at AI Foundation, where he led generative science research to create virtual humans and worked as a researcher at Technicolor R&I. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University, and Masters from University of Pennsylvania, and worked at Max-Planck Institute of Informatics, Germany as a researcher.