research · publications & active work

Papers, labs, and
things being figured out.

A mix of published, in-flight, and currently-being-written work. The official PI for each thread is named in their tile.

publications
In progress · 2026
Agentic Knowledge-Graph Extraction of Bioinformatic Research Experiment Processes
A. Vasantlal, TBD ...
Pipeline for bioinformatics research reproduction with the assistance of AI.
in progress
In progress · 2026
Benchmarking Autonomous Bug Report Testing for Android Applications
A. Vasantlal, Dingbang Wang, T. Yu
Eval framework for autonomous bug reproduction tools. First Author.
in progress
submitted · 2026
MORL-A2C: Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Reranker for Optimizing MOPI-HFRS
Aarya Vasantlal Josh Zolla, Chuxu Zhang
Pending peer review. First Author.
submitted
research threads · active

Where I’m thinking from.

May 2025 — present
AI for Software Engineering — UConn
Research Fellow · Dr. Tingting Yu · Dr. Jinze Liu
  • Bioinformatic experiment process extraction via multi-agent LLM systems
  • Benchmarking autonomous bug-report testing for Android using computer-use agents
Sept 2024 — Aug 2025
EL GATO Lab — UConn
ML Research Fellow · Dr. Derek Aguiar
  • Predicting motion outcomes for civil court cases (Beta-Bernoulli, TF-IDF + Word2Vec weighted embeddings)
  • Decision Tree, XGBoost, SVM classifiers; up to 65% accuracy
  • Anomaly detection with Isolation Forests and One-Class SVM
Sept 2025 — Apr 2026
MOPI-HFRS · UConn Senior Design
Project Lead · Dr. Chuxu Zhang
  • Extended a static GNN food recommendation system with A2C RL across 8,170 users × 6,769 items
  • Fixed 3 compounding evaluation bugs misreporting accuracy by >50%
  • Health alignment 0.39 → 0.73; A2C critic baseline + BC pretraining