Saurabh Jha

Saurabh Jha is a senior research scientist at IBM Research and Research Product Focal (PI) for Instana. He works at the intersection of AI and systems, focusing on building resilient systems for AI agents and developing AI agents for IT operations. His research has been integrated into multiple IBM products and contributed to positioning Instana as a leader in 2025 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms.

More information available at https://saurabhjha.one/

Awards and Honors

• ITBench at ICML 2025 selected as a spotlight paper
• IBM Tech 2024 award
• ISSRE 2022 Distinguished Industry Reviewer
• ISSRE 2020 Best Research Paper CSL News
• SC 2020 Best Paper and Best Student Paper Finalist
• 2020 IBM PhD Fellowship CSL News
• SAP Industry PhD scholarship (declined to attend UIUC)
• Teachers Ranked as Excellent, Spring 2018, ECE/CS 498 Data Science
• Best Poster CSLSC 2016
• Best Student Award, Class of 2010-2014, VIT University
• HPDC 2013 Best Poster Award

Recent Professional Service

• PC Chair: 2022 DSN-DSML
• PC: DSN 2023, IPDPS 2023, SoCC 2022, Cluster 2022, ISSRE 2022, NeurIPS 2022, ICML 2022, ICRA 2022, IROS 2022