Vatsal Jha

Vatsal Jha

I'm a research engineer working on reliable AI systems and sequential decision-making.

I build multi-agent systems, reinforcement-learning methods, and the ML infrastructure to run them. Recent work includes a root-cause diagnosis system for distributed services at Samsung Research, a bandit-based planner for EV charging infrastructure, and audio-deepfake detection at testAIng.

I recently completed a B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering at Vellore Institute of Technology.

News

AdaptiveCareArena, my solo-authored work on decision-facing evaluation of patient world models under healthcare resource constraints, was accepted as a poster at the NeurIPS 2026 WMHS Workshop.

BehaviorFL-MT was accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 NewInML Workshop.

Ranking Is Not Valuation was accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (TCCML) Workshop.

Indian Patent Application 202641089937, on privacy-preserving federated in-vehicle recommendation, was published.

Selected Work

Agentic root-cause analysis for distributed services Samsung Research India · 2025
Designed and built a multi-agent root-cause diagnosis system end to end: specialist evidence collection, hypothesis validation, cross-incident retrieval memory, and diagnosis-only safety boundaries, using Google ADK and MCP over Kubernetes and observability infrastructure. Evaluated it on a purpose-built fault-injection testbed (OpenTelemetry Demo plus Chaos Mesh).
HOMA: multilingual agent orchestration for smart homes Samsung PRISM · ICCCNT 2025
Led a four-person research team building a multilingual SLM-orchestrated system that decomposes multi-device smart-home commands and coordinates sequential and concurrent execution across 11+ languages, with synthetic multilingual evaluation of Gemma, Qwen and Phi-family models under edge constraints.
HERO: EV charging-station placement via bandit search VIT Research · under review
A two-stage system for EV charging-station placement: an XGBoost city-level demand model feeds a simulator-in-the-loop multi-armed-bandit search over full station layouts. In Ann Arbor SUMO microsimulation, it outperforms facility-location, metaheuristic and bandit baselines by up to 39.9% composite reward; results are reported in a manuscript currently under review.
PrompTrend: contextual-bandit prompt recommendation Personal project · PyPI package
A FastAPI service that recommends prompts online using contextual bandits: BERT intent classification, Redis/PostgreSQL persistence, and feedback-driven incremental regressors under stochastic exploration. Published as an installable package.
Multilingual audio deepfake detection testAIng · 2026
Owned ML systems and research for multilingual audio-deepfake detection (ECAPA-TDNN, WavLM, mixture-of-experts), reaching 0.94 to 0.96 AUC on internal multilingual benchmarks and 1.97% EER on Hindi fine-tuning, then migrated model-heavy inference to Docker/Kubernetes with HPA, probes and Prometheus/Grafana.
ChatterBot: a scalable LLM-serving prototype Personal project
FastAPI, Ray Serve/vLLM, Redis, RabbitMQ and PostgreSQL serving system with synchronous, queued-async and SSE streaming modes, context caching, retries and circuit breakers, and Locust load tests. Designed to scale horizontally under high concurrency.
Eldermere: a multiplayer systems project Personal project
A Go, SvelteKit and PostgreSQL browser MUD with WebSocket room and presence state, persistent sessions, data-driven content packs, tests and Docker Compose deployment.

Experience

testAIngJan–Jul 2026
Machine Learning Intern, audio-deepfake detection and ML infrastructure
Samsung Research IndiaMay–Jul 2025
Software Engineering Intern, Server Platform / MAGPIE: agentic root-cause analysis
Samsung PRISM, R&D Institute BangaloreOct 2024–May 2025
Team Lead / Co-primary Researcher, HOMA multilingual agent orchestration
Vellore Institute of Technology, Dr. B. AshokAug 2024–present
Researcher: federated learning, RL/bandits, evaluation under distribution shift
Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)Jun–Aug 2024
Data Science Intern: NLP for job-transition analysis, ML bias correction for air-quality forecasts

Selected Publications

V. Jha. “AdaptiveCareArena: Decision-Facing Evaluation of Patient World Models Under Healthcare Resource Constraints.” NeurIPS 2026 WMHS Workshop. Accepted poster; sole author.
V. Jha, A. Srivastava, B. Ashok. “Ranking Is Not Valuation: Selection-Aware Carbon Claims under Supplier Shift.” NeurIPS 2026 TCCML Workshop. Accepted.
V. Jha, B. Ashok. “BehaviorFL-MT: Federated Multi-Task Learning under Unequal Vehicle Sensors and Partial Supervision.” NeurIPS 2026 NewInML Workshop. Accepted.
V. Jha, Y. Babu S. “CA-AMFA: Context-Aware Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication for IoT-Based Household Security Systems.” IEEE ICDSINC, 2025. Best Paper Award.
A. Jain, V. Jha, F. Alsaif, B. Ashok, I. Vairavasundaram, C. Kavitha. “Machine learning framework using on-road realtime data for battery SoC level prediction in electric two-wheelers.” Journal of Energy Storage, 97, 112884, 2024.
A. Jain, V. Jha, et al. “HOMA: Home Orchestration using Multi-Agent systems.” ICCCNT, 2025. Presented; proceedings pending.

About

Outside of research, I co-founded Team Prometheus, VIT's RoboCup Small-Size League team, and later led Youth Red Cross, VIT, where I organized a blood donation camp that set the university's single-day record. I grew up in Bokaro and am currently based in Bangalore.