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Senior Staff Data Scientist · InsightFinder AI

Ting Dai

I work on LLM evaluation, agentic systems and AI SRE: making AI systems, and the infrastructure under them, measurable, debuggable and trustworthy in production.

Previously Staff Research Scientist at IBM Research. Ph.D. in Computer Science, NC State University, advised by Xiaohui (Helen) Gu.

Now INSIGHTFINDER AI · 2025 – NOW

AI SRE · Agents

ARI: Predictive AI SRE

InsightFinder's predictive reliability agent. It predicts failures hours before impact, identifies root causes and resolves issues across the stack, from AI agents and applications to IT infrastructure, with engineer approval.

LLM evaluation · Guardrails

AI Evaluation & Guardrails

Evaluates LLM and agent responses for hallucination, relevance, safety and bias, guards against jailbreaks, prompt injection and PII leakage, and compares models and prompt versions side by side before they ship.

Research themes

01

AI agents and LLMs for IT operations

Benchmarking agents on real-world SRE, compliance and FinOps tasks (ITBench); generating, assessing and refining operations scripts (ScriptSmith); validating generated code without references (CodeSift).

02

Bug and vulnerability detection

Distributed concurrency bugs through RPC-driven, race-directed test generation and fuzzing (Themis); server-side request forgeries through LLM-assisted, path-sensitive taint analysis (Artemis).

03

Cloud and infrastructure security

Detecting risky scripts embedded in Ansible infrastructure code (SecureCode); how well static and dynamic schemes catch container exploits; privacy-preserving, auditable smart contracts on Hyperledger Fabric (FabZK).

04

Performance, hang and timeout bugs in cloud systems

Hybrid static and runtime diagnosis, data-corruption hang detection, automatic hang and timeout fixing. The subject of my Ph.D. dissertation.

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