Jackson Clark

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I'm a second-year PhD student in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). I am "watched" by my advisor Tianyin Xu.

My research explores practical AI and agent techniques for safety-critical computer systems and infrastructures. My current work is in the AIOps space, specifically in AI for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Previously, I collaborated with Microsoft Research and IBM Research to build LLM benchmarks (AIOpsLab, IT-Bench) and agents (STRATUS) for SRE. I'm currently building SREGym to unify my prior benchmarking work.

In the past, I worked at NASA in the Space Technology Mission Directorate, where I helped develop space systems for the International Space Station. I'm also an instructor at the Discovery Partners Institute at the University of Illinois, where I teach a professional development class on Data Science to CPS high school teachers.