Vijayakumar Venganti

Title of the Talk:
From the Network Edge to the Agent Core: Fuzzy and Agentic Intelligence for Self-Healing Enterprise Infrastructure

Abstract:
Modern enterprise networks have grown beyond what manual operations can realistically keep up with. Campus, branch, cloud and edge now function as one connected system and problems surface faster than engineers can chase them down one ticket at a time. This talk describes an approach I have been developing that pairs fuzzy logic with autonomous software agents to help infrastructure recover on its own. Fuzzy reasoning handles fast, everyday judgment calls by reading telemetry in degrees rather than fixed thresholds, so routine issues get caught and explained without much overhead. Harder or unfamiliar problems get handed to a set of agents that investigate the cause, work out a safe fix, carry it out using approved tools and confirm the network actually recovered. Drawing on twenty years spent building and running telecom and enterprise networks, I will walk through the architecture behind this approach, a real incident example and the safeguards that make it something you can actually trust in production.

Bio:
Vijayakumar Venganti is a System Architect and Senior Software Engineer at Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, with over twenty years of experience across embedded software, telecom, wireless and enterprise networking. His work sits at the intersection of AI, networking and enterprise security with a focus on building infrastructure that is resilient, explainable and secure by design.

He serves as Communication Chair of the ACM Bluffdale Chapter and holds Fellow status with IETE, Senior Member status with IEEE and Distinguished Fellow status with the Soft Computing Research Society. He is active across the IEEE academic community as an author, conference participant and peer reviewer. He has authored and published research articles indexed in IEEE and contributed over 100 peer reviews for IEEE and Elsevier publications.

Vijayakumar has spoken at international conferences on self-healing systems, explainable AI and the future of agentic network operations, and he continues to publish and review work at the frontier of intelligent infrastructure.