Dan Pei 裴丹

Bio

Dan Pei is a Professor of Computer Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Previously, he was a Principal Researcher at AT&T Research in Florham Park, New Jersey, USA. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2005, earning the Computer Science Department’s Outstanding Ph.D. Award. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tsinghua University in 1997 and 2000, respectively.

His research focuses on AIOps (AI for System Operations), developing key technologies that help systems operate reliably under changing workloads and in the presence of failures. Working closely with industry, he has developed key techniques for failure detection using generative and language models for anomaly detection, and for fault localization using causal inference, multimodal fusion, and multi-agent collaboration. Technologies developed through his research have been incorporated into AIOps products and deployed by dozens of large enterprises across Internet services, finance, telecommunications, energy, and e-government.

He founded the CCF AIOps Algorithm Challenge and initiated the CCF OpenAIOps community. The challenge has completed eight editions and attracted participants from more than 1,000 organizations. Together, these initiatives provide open datasets, benchmarks, and educational resources for research and practice. His collaborative research also includes OpenRCA, a benchmark that Anthropic used to evaluate Claude Opus 4.6’s ability to diagnose the root causes of software failures.

He received the 2023 First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics as the first-ranked contributor for work on AIOps technologies and their industrial application.

He has published more than 250 research papers, with over 20,000 citations on Google Scholar. His AIOps papers have received five best paper awards and three best paper nominations. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Networking. He served as Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of IEEE ICNP 2022 and has served on the technical program committees of numerous international conferences.