Saad Mohammad Rafid Pial

Software Engineer@Monsha.AI · Research Intern@UIUC · Incoming MSCS@UIUC

About Me

Hi, I am Pial. I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). Currently, I am a remote research intern at Professor Tianyin Xu's lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working on SREGym, a live benchmark for evaluating AI agents on high-fidelity cloud system failures. Alongside my research, I work as a full-time Software Engineer at Monsha.AI, building AI-powered tools to help educators create classroom materials.

You're beautiful as you are, Courage. With all your imperfections, you can do anything.

— Courage the Cowardly Dog

Research Interests

AIOpsCloud Reliability

My research is in the AIOps space, specifically in AI for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). I am currently building SREGym, a live benchmark to evaluate whether AI agents can diagnose and resolve production incidents on real cloud-native stacks. SREGym simulates high-fidelity failure scenarios including metastable failures, correlated faults, and noisy monitoring environments.

News and Updates

Apr 2025

Our demo paper SREGym: A Live Training Ground for AI SRE Agents with High-Fidelity Failure Drills got accepted at ACM CAIS '26 as a System Demonstration

Apr 2025

We got featured on Illinois CS News for SREGym

Jul 2025

My paper NuevAI got accepted at CHItaly 2025

May 2025

Began research internship at Professor Tianyin Xu's lab at UIUC

Mar 2025

Graduated with a BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from BUET