Problem-first
Each track starts from concrete operational constraints and failure costs before model choice.
Execution-focused research: define constraints, establish baselines, measure outcomes, and ship by milestones.
Each track starts from concrete operational constraints and failure costs before model choice.
Data versions, experiment settings, evaluation scripts, and baseline runs are traceable.
Outputs are designed for production: latency budgets, resilience, staged rollout, and rollback.
Critical flows retain evidence: input provenance, model version, human approval, and alerts.
Make uncertainty explicit and reduce wrong acceptance.
Question: when should users trust, verify, or override model outputs?
Method: state-machine UX, evidence traceability, and mandatory human gates.
Deliverables: interaction protocol, edge-case scripts, usability report.
Metrics: wrong-acceptance < 3%, task completion > 85%, interruption down 20%.
Keep high-value signals in high-throughput conversations.
Question: reduce noise without missing critical messages.
Method: layered event processing, summary service, cross-device consistency checks.
Deliverables: message policy engine, summary service, consistency test set.
Metrics: critical misses < 2%, first-response latency down 30%, conflict rate < 0.5%.
Unify identity, authorization, and audit trails.
Question: enforce least privilege with clear accountability.
Method: verifiable credentials, policy enforcement points, and linked audit logs.
Deliverables: identity model, policy templates, audit baseline, drill playbooks.
Metrics: escalation interception > 99%, audit completeness 100%, false-deny < 1%.
Keep realtime availability under bursts and failures.
Question: maintain latency, ordering, and uptime under load volatility.
Method: event-driven design, idempotent consumers, replay compensation, degradation tiers.
Deliverables: reference architecture, capacity model, fault-injection report, SLO policy.
Metrics: P95 < 200ms, P99 < 500ms, loss < 0.01%, MTTR < 10 min.
Build reproducible forecasting and anomaly-detection capability on industrial and sensor data.
Question: under noisy signals, drift, and multivariate coupling, how do we keep forecasts stable and detect anomalies early?
Method: LSTM/Transformer baseline comparison, feature engineering, online drift monitoring, and threshold governance.
Deliverables: forecasting baseline, anomaly detection policy, evaluation report, and production monitoring template.
Metrics: lower MAPE, higher anomaly-detection F1, and controlled false-positive/false-negative rates.
Q2 2026
Lock unified baselines
Freeze temporal split rules and evaluation scripts for reproducible comparison.
Q3 2026
Activate online canary pipeline
Run at least two tracks with rollback and control-group comparison.
Q4 2026
Ship reusable references
Deliver protocol templates, service templates, and failure drill playbooks.
| Track | Offline metrics | Online metrics | Current status |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI Interaction | Task completion, wrong-acceptance rate, repair steps | Interruption rate, session depth, human takeover rate | Evaluation framework live |
| Intelligent Messaging | Summary consistency, critical-message F1, temporal integrity | First-response latency, miss rate, sync conflict rate | Dataset expansion |
| Trust & Identity | Policy hit rate, false-deny rate, audit coverage | Privilege-escalation interception, auth failure rate, rollback time | Policy template validation |
| Realtime Infrastructure | Load throughput, idempotency correctness, chaos test pass rate | P95/P99 latency, message loss rate, MTTR | Capacity model iteration |
| Time-Series Intelligence | MAPE, RMSE, anomaly-detection F1, drift sensitivity | Alert lead time, false-positive rate, false-negative rate, model rollback time | Baseline experiments started |
Model drift and distribution shift
Impact: Degrading online quality and rising false decisions
Mitigation: Drift thresholds, retraining triggers, and regression validation gates.
False alarms and misses
Impact: Unnecessary interventions or missed critical events
Mitigation: Tiered alerts, human review policies, and context-specific thresholds.
System-level cascading failures
Impact: Timeout amplification across realtime pipelines
Mitigation: Rate limiting, circuit breaking, graceful degradation, and replay compensation.
Insufficient compliance evidence
Impact: Weak accountability and expensive postmortems
Mitigation: End-to-end logs, signed versions, and dual approval on critical actions.