Since September 2023, I have been a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Thomas Henzinger’s group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. I received my PhD in the doctoral program ‘Logical Methods in Computer Science’ (LogiCS) funded by FWF, and the LIT AI Lab under the supervision of Prof. Armin Biere, at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria. My thesis was on hardware model checking certification. Before that, I completed my undergraduate studies in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, UK, where I was advised by Prof. Alessio Lomuscio.

My research focuses on formal verification and runtime monitoring for complex safety-critical systems, with a particular emphasis on integrating automated reasoning methodologies into learning neural-based control, and hardware systems. Recently, I also work on verification of neural networks.

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Selected Publications
(2025). Logic Gate Neural Networks are Good for Verification. In International Conference on Neuro-symbolic Systems 2025
Selected for oral presentation.
(2025). Predictive Monitoring of Black-Box Dynamical Systems. In Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC) 2025.
(2025). Introducing Certificates to the Hardware Model Checking Competition. In Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2025).
(2025). Neural Control and Certificate Repair via Runtime Monitoring. In Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025)
Selected for oral presentation.
(2024). Certifying Phase Abstraction. In International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2024).
Academic Service

Formal Aspects of Computing Journal, Reviewer.
ECAI 2025, Program Committee.
IJCAI 2025, Program Committee.
FMCAD 2025, Program Committee.
CADE 2025, Subreviewer.
NeuS 2025, Subreviewer.
iFM 2024, Program Committee.
VMCAI 2024, Artifact Evaluation Committee.
FM 2024, Artifact Evaluation Committee.
ATVA 2024, Artifact Evaluation Committee.

📚 Education

Ph.D in Computer Science Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria (2019-2023)
Formal verification and certification of hardware designs.

M.Eng in Computer Science Imperial College London, United Kingdom (2014-2018) Formal verification of multi-agent systems.

GCE A-levels Concord College, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom (2012-2014)

Contact

Feel free to reach out to me via email: emily.yu2019@gmail.com.