Ofir Pele
Dr. Ofir Pele is a data scientist and algorithms developer. He previously led ML initiatives at Western Digital that delivered multi-million dollar impact through innovations operating under strict reliability requirements. His research background includes positions at Ariel University and University of Pennsylvania, with publications garnering over 2,500 citations and 12 patents. Dr. Pele holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where industry and academic research groups have adopted his work on distance functions. His expertise spans explainable and constrained ML, DL, RL, CV, and large-scale simulations and experiments with applications in diverse domains including storage technology, cybersecurity, and healthcare.
Independent
Job title –Algorithm & Software Developer
Session
Our team maintains a large-scale codebase for detecting and predicting issues in clusters, with hundreds of validation rules contributed and regularly updated by SRE engineers. A key challenge is identifying false positives and predicting which validations are most likely to require fixes.
In this research, we analyze validation rules as repeated code patterns, creating a unique dataset for machine learning. We compute numerical descriptors—such as code length, complexity, entropy, and time since introduction—across different Git branches and compare them with historical bug fixes. Preliminary results indicate strong correlations between these factors and validation reliability.
In this talk, we will present our findings using classical machine learning models and benchmark them against modern large language models (LLMs). We will discuss the effectiveness of both approaches, and the potential impact on automated validation quality improvement.