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Jian Tan

Principal AI Researcher

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Jian Tan is a Principal AI Researcher at Cisco. He has both industrial experience at IBM Research and Alibaba Cloud in distributed systems and AI/ML (as Research Scientist and Director), and academic experience as a tenure-track faculty at The Ohio State University, ECE Dept. He has won 4 Best Paper Awards at conferences and one Best Thesis Award at Columbia University.

Analytics Context Engineering for LLM

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This blog was written in collaboration with Fan Bu, Jason Mackay, Borya Sobolev, Dev Khanolkar, Ali Dabir, Puneet Kamal, Li Zhang, and Lei Jin. “Everything is a file”; some are databases Introduction Machine data underpins observability and diagnosis in modern computing systems, including logs, metrics, telemetry traces, configuration snapshots, and API response payloads. In practice, […]