Dan Pei
Professor
Works on AIOps and time-series intelligence for anomaly detection and failure diagnosis in large IT systems.
Dan Pei's lab at Tsinghua works on time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data and recognition, detection & segmentation. 100 papers since 2023, 17 at top venues, mostly WWW and FSE. 10 PhD students and 8 master's students. 40 alumni, most often to Huawei and Microsoft. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 26/ year
- at T1 venues
- 17%
- PhD students
- 10
- MS students
- 8
- alumni listed
- 40
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 34 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 23 papers2025 · T1 8
- 26 papers2024 · T1 4
- 17 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: WWW, FSE, KDD, ICML, VLDB
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Time series, anomaly & spatio-temporal data42 papers
- Recognition, detection & segmentation24 papers
- anomaly21 papers
- anomaly detection19 papers
- time-series2 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202634 papers
- (ICSE2026-SEIP), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 12-18A Benchmark for Language Models in Real-World System Building
- CCF-AAutoDA-Timeseries: Automated Data Augmentation for Time Series
- ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering Industry Track (FSE-Industry , Sun 5 - Thu 9 July Montreal, CanadaBridging the Delay: Lag-Aware Spatio-Temporal Causal Inference for Microservice Root Cause Analysis
- ISSREBTSB: Business-Level Time Series Anomaly Detection Benchmark
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (ACM TOSEMCan Language Models Go Beyond Coding? Assessing the Capability of Language Models to Build Real-World Systems
- ISSREChainCraft: Bridging Causal Discovery and LLM Reasoning for Failure Prediction in Microservices
- ACM SIGOPS Annual Technical Conference (ATC’26), Shatin, Hong Kong, China, November 15-18CoreCapture: Anomaly-Aware System Trace Sampling for Resource-Constrained Mobile Devices
- ASEDebugging the Debuggers: Failure-Anchored Structured Recovery for Software Engineering Agents
- SIGMOD2026, Bengaluru, India, on May 31 - JuneDIVER: A Robust Text-to-SQL System with Dynamic Interactive Value Linking and Evidence Reasoning
- SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery aand Data MiningDon’t Predict, Prioritize: Rethinking GPU Reliability Assessment
- ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering Industry Track (FSE-Industry , Sun 5 - Thu 9 July Montreal, CanadaEagle: Leveraging Operations Documents for Comprehensive Benchmark Question Generation
- The SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA , Sat 3 - Fri 9 October Oakland, California, United StatesEvidenT: An Evidence-Preserving Framework for Iterative System-Level Package Repair
202523 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), DOI: 10.1109/TSC. .3622122A Comprehensive Benchmark and Empirical Study of Trace Anomaly Detection
- FSE (T1)A Multimodal Intelligent Change Assessment Framework for Microservice Systems Based on Large Language Models
- IEEE Transactions on Service ComputingAccurate and Interpretable Log-Based Fault Diagnosis using Large Language Models
- IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE , Sun 16 - Thu 20 November , Seoul, South KoreaAdaptive Performance Regression Detection via Semi-Supervised Siamese Learning
- IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), São Paulo, Brazil, October 21-24AetherLog: Log-based Root Cause Analysis by Integrating Large Language Models with Knowledge Graphs
- CCF-BAIOpsArena: Scenario-Oriented Evaluation and Leaderboard for AIOps Algorithms in Microservices
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), BARCELONA July 6-11Bridging Edge and Cloud: A Knowledge-Enhanced Framework for Efficient Time Series Anomaly Detection
- VLDB (T1)ChatTS: Aligning Time Series with LLMs via Synthetic Data for Enhanced Understanding and Reasoning
- ICML (T1)CMoS: Rethinking Time Series Prediction Through the Lens of Chunk-wise Spatial Correlations
- IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), São Paulo, Brazil, October 21-24DeST: An Unsupervised Decoupled Spatio-Temporal Framework for Microservice Incident Management
- WWW (T1)Flow-of-Action: SOP Enhanced LLM-Based Multi-Agent System for Root Cause Analysis
- CCF-AFlowXpert: Expertizing Troubleshooting Workflow Orchestration with Knowledge Base and Multi-Agent Coevolution
202426 papers
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) (THU B, CCF C) PaperA Survey on Intelligent Management of Alerts and Incidents in IT Services
- IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE), Sacramento, California, United States, October - NovemberART: A Unified Unsupervised Framework for Incident Management in Microservice Systems
- International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Tsukuba, Japan, OctoberAuto-PIP: Real-time Identification of Critical Performance Inflection Points in Software Stress Testing
- CCGrid , Philadelphia, May 6-9Causality Enhanced Graph Representation Learning for Alert-Based Root Cause Analysis
- —Chain-of-Event: Interpretable Root Cause Analysis for Microservices through Automatically Learning Weighted Event Causal Graph
- IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE), Sacramento, California, United States, October - NovemberEnd-to-End AutoML for Unsupervised Log Anomaly Detection
- International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Tsukuba, Japan, OctoberEnhanced Fine-Tuning of Lightweight Domain-Specific Q&A model Based on Large Language Models
- —Fault Diagnosis for Test Alarms in Microservices through Multi-source Data
- IEEE/ACM Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE ), Sacramento, California, United States, October - NovemberGiving Every Modality a Voice in Microservice Failure Diagnosis via Multimodal Adaptive Optimization
- IWQoSGuardian of the Resiliency: Detecting Erroneous Software Changes Before They Make Your Microservice System Less Fault-Resilient
- —Illuminating the Gray Zone: Non-intrusive Gray Failure Localization in Server Operating Systems
- ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), -0110.R1Interpretable Failure Localization for Microservice Systems Based on Graph Autoencoder
202317 papers
- Journal of Computer Research and DevelopmentA Study on Response Time Anomaly Diagnosis for Search Service
- The IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSREAn Empirical Analysis of Anomaly Detection Issues for Multivariate Time Series
- The IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSREAutoKAD: Empowering KPI Anomaly Detection with Label-Free Deployment
- ESEC/FSE industry trackBeyond Sharing: Conflict-Aware Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection
- WWW (T1)CMDiagnostor: An Ambiguity-Aware Root Cause Localization Approach Based on Call Metric Data
- —Efficient and Robust KPI Outlier Detection for Large-Scale Datacenters
- The IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSREEfficient and Robust Trace Anomaly Detection for Large-Scale Microservice Systems
- ESEC/FSE industry trackFrom Point-wise to Group-wise: A Fast and Accurate Microservice Trace Anomaly Detection Approach
- Journal of Systems and SoftwareGeneric and Robust Root Cause Localization for Multi-Dimensional Data in Online Service Systems
- VLDB (T1)Lindorm TSDB: A Cloud-native Time-series Database for Large-scale Monitoring Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Services ComputingLogKG: Log Failure Diagnosis through Knowledge Graph
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM), JanuaryLogSummary: Unstructured Log Summarization for Software Systems
Where alumni went40 listed, 76% to industry
Industry 25Academia 8
Most often to
- Huawei
- Microsoft
- ByteDance
Also to
- a Researcher at a research institute.
- a Researcher at China Aerospace Research Institute II.
- Algorithm Engineer at China Mobile Research Institute
Apply to TsinghuaFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (international applicants)
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- Fee
- RMB 800
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