📚 Biography: Gou Tan (谭苟 in Chinese) is currently a 2nd-year Ph.D. student at Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU), supervised by Prof. Pengfei Chen and Prof. Chuanfu Zhang. Recently, he was awarded a CSC (China Scholarship Council) fellowship, and he will join the Singapore Management University (SMU), co-supervised by Prof. SHAR Lwin Khin and Prof. David Lo. He received a B.E. degree from Sun Yat-Sen University in 2022.
💡Research Interest: AI Reliability, SE4AI, LLMOps, MLOps, AI4SE, AIOps.
🔥 News
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Our paper “MetaRCA: A Generalizable Root Cause Analysis Framework for Cloud-Native Systems Powered by Meta Causal Knowledge” was accepted by FSE'26 (CCF A)! Congrats to Shuai Liang!
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Our Agent-based C to Rust solutions won 3rd Prize in The 3rd vivo BlueOS Innovation Competition.
- 2025.12: 🎉🎉 Our paper “ProfRCA: LLM-Enabled Fine-grained Root Cause Analysis with Continuous Profiling Data” was accepted by SANER'26 (CCF B)! Congrats to Siyuan!
- 2025.09: 🎉🎉 Our paper “MOTSAD: Multi-Objective Optimization for Time Series Anomaly Detection in Microservice” was accepted by ICSOC'25 (CCF B)! Congrats to Xitao!
- 2025.06: 🎉🎉 Our paper “InferLog: Accelerating LLM Inference for Online Log Parsing via ICL-oriented Prefix Caching” was accepted by ICSE'26 (CCF A)! Congrats to Yilun!
- 2025.04: 🎉🎉 Our paper “A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems” was accepted by TOSEM (CCF A)! Congrats to Guangba!
- 2023.12: 🎉🎉 Our LLM-based AIOps solutions won 3rd place🥉 in the 2023 CCF International AIOps Challenge (1st🏅 among student teams).
- 2023.10: 🎉🎉 Our paper “Online Data Drift Detection for Anomaly Detection Services based on Deep Learning towards Multivariate Time Series” was accepted by QRS'23 (CCF C)!
📝 Publications
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FSE’26 (CCF A) MetaRCA: A Generalizable Root Cause Analysis Framework for Cloud-Native Systems Powered by Meta Causal Knowledge
Shuai Liang, Pengfei Chen*, Bozhe Tian, Gou Tan, Maohong Xu, Youjun Qu, Yahui Zhao, Yiduo Shang, Chongkang Tan.
ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE’26), Montreal, Canada, July, 2026.
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SANER’26 (CCF B) ProfRCA: LLM-Enabled Fine-grained Root Cause Analysis with Continuous Profiling Data
Siyuan Ye, Gou Tan, Wanqi Yang, and Pengfei Chen*.
The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER’26), Limassol, Cyprus, March 2026.
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ICSOC’25 (CCF B) MOTSAD: Multi-Objective Optimization for Time Series Anomaly Detection in Microservice
Xitao Tang, Gou Tan and Pengfei Chen*.
The 23rd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC’25), Shenzhen, China, December 2025.
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ICSE’26 (CCF A) InferLog: Accelerating LLM Inference for Online Log Parsing via ICL-oriented Prefix Caching
Yilun Wang, Pengfei Chen*, Haiyu Huang, Zilong He, Gou Tan, Chuanfu Zhang, Jingkai He, Zibin Zheng.
2026 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’26), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2026.
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TOSEM (CCF A) A Survey on Failure Analysis and Fault Injection in AI Systems
Guangba Yu, Gou Tan, Haojia Huang, Zhenyu Zhang, Pengfei Chen*, Roberto Natella, Zibin Zheng, Michael R. Lyu.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
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QRS’23 (CCF C) Online Data Drift Detection for Anomaly Detection Services based on Deep Learning towards Multivariate Time Series
Gou Tan, Pengfei Chen*, and Min Li.
2023 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability, and Security (QRS’23), Chiang Mai, Thailand, October 2023.
💯 Under Review
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26 LLMRCA: Multilevel Root Causes Analysis for LLM Applications Using Multimodal Observability Data
Gou Tan, Zilong He, Min Li, Haiyu Huang, Yilun Wang, Pengfei Chen*, Giuliano Casale, Chuanfu Zhang.
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🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2025.12 3rd Prize (7/154), The 3rd vivo BlueOS Innovation Competition.
- 2025.02 Merit Award (14/403), The 2nd vivo BlueOS Innovation Competition.
- 2024.12 Bronze Award, “HUAWEI Cup” The 21st China Post-Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling.
- 2023.12 3rd Place, 2023 CCF International AIOps Challenge (1st among student teams).
👩🏻💻 Working Experience
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2025.08 - Present, ByteDance. AgentOps Research Intern, Data Infrastructure - Volcano Engine Platform Architecture.Collaborate with Meng Wang, Yaozheng Fang, and Guodong Li. Developed Volcengine Agent Development Kit (VeADK). Focus on “Multi-Agent system evaluation and optimization”.
📖 Educations
2022.09 - Present, Ph.D. student (Master’s and Ph.D. combined program), Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU).
2025.12 - 2026.12, Visiting Scholar, Singapore Management University (SMU).- 2018.09 - 2022.06, Bachelor degree, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU).
