Wenchao Li is an associate professor at Boston University with a decade of experience in building safe and trustworthy AI systems grounded in formal methods and specification mining. With a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, his research and career trace from scalable specification mining at Microsoft Research and SRI to academic leadership developing verifiable AI and requirements-extraction techniques. He bridges theory and practice—publishing algorithms for specification inference while collaborating on applied projects that reverse-engineer and validate complex digital systems. Based in Massachusetts, he leads the DEPEND lab focused on dependable AI, bringing a rare combination of formal verification expertise and hands-on systems work that helps translate research into practical, auditable tools.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
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