People

Principal Investigator

Wenchao Li Ph.D., UC Berkeley [Curriculum Vitae] Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boston University Affiliated Faculty Member Department of Computer Science Division of Systems Engineering Center for Information & Systems Engineering Hariri Institute for Computing Email: [firstname] (at) bu (dot) edu Phone: (617) 353-0115 Office: 336 Photonics Center Mailing: 8 Saint Mary’s St, Boston, MA 02215Erdös number: 3

Current PhD Students

	Zijian Guo Email: zjguo (at) bu (dot) edu Ph.D. student of SE (Fall 2023 – ) Research interests: Safe Reinforcement Learning, Formal Methods, Neural-Symbolic Reasoning
	Chenyu Wang Email: chyuwang (at) bu (dot) edu Ph.D student of ECE (Fall 2023 – ); Co-advised with Kayhan Batmanghelich Research interests: Explainable AI, Uncertainty Quantification, VLM
	H M Sabbir Ahmad Email: sabbir92 (at) bu (dot) edu Ph.D. Student of SE (Summer 2022 – ); Co-advised with Christos Cassandras Research interests: Safe Reinforcement Learning, Optimal Control, CPS security

Alumni

Graduated PhD Students

Jiameng Fan (Fall 2017 – Summer 2022)

• Dissertation: Towards Provable Safe and Robust Learning-Enabled Systems
• Post-graduation: Software Engineer at Google

Kacper Wardega (Fall 2017 – Summer 2023)

• Dissertation: Securing Multi-Robot Systems with Inter-Robot Observations and Accusations
• Post-graduation: Security Machine Learning Researcher at Stellar Cyber

Feisi Fu (Fall 2019 – Spring 2024)

• Dissertation: Neural Network Editing: Algorithms and Applications
• Post-graduation: Machine Learning Engineer at TikTok

Weichao Zhou (Fall 2018 – Summer 2024)

• Dissertation: Specification-Guided Imitation Learning
• Post-graduation: Postdoc at MIT → Applied Scientist at Amazon

Panagiota Kiourti (Fall 2018 – Summer 2024)

• Dissertation: Enhancing Deep Learning Security through Explainability and Robustness
• Post-graduation: Senior Software Engineer at Carbon

Graduated Master Students

Yuhao Zhou (M.S. ECE, 2020) –> Ph.D. Student at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Xiaoyue Wang (M.S. ECE, 2016 – 2018) –> First job: Software Engineer at ChaveTech
Zuhayr Raghib (M.S. ECE, 2017 – 2018) –> First job: AI Engineer Intern at DeepBrain Chain
Akash Mehta (M.S. ECE, 2017 – 2018) –> First job: Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation
Hongchen Guo (M.S. ECE, 2016 – 2017) –> First job: Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Yaqin Huang (M.S. ECE, 2016 – 2017) –> First job: eDrawings R&D Development Engineer at Solidworks
Qifan He (M.S. ECE, 2017) –> First job: Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP

Undergraduate Students

Zean Wan (ECE), Jilin Zheng (ECE), Sienna Chien (ECE), Samuel Keamy (ECE), Pree Simphilphan (ECE), William Fang (CS), Merna Alghannam (CS), Michael Aliberti (ECE), Zhiyuan Liu (ECE), Madiul Chowdhury (ECE), Quinn Meurer (ECE)

High School Students

Tarang Gaddam (RISE Program, Summer 2023) –> Mechanical Engineering at UCLA
Andy Cheng (BU RISE Program, Summer 2022) –> Computer Engineering at Yale University
Nashita Rahman (BU RISE Program, Summer 2019) –> Computer Science at Columbia University
Edward Yang (BU RISE Program, Summer 2018) –> Computer Science at University of California, San Diego
Eddie Hew (BU RISE Program, Summer 2017) –> Computer Science at Cornell University