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, 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.

Not-so-fun facts: I play the piano at an advanced level, and the harp at a beginner level. I mainly like yoga and reading who-dun-it books in my spare time.

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Selected Publications
(2025). Predictive Monitoring of Black-Box Dynamical Systems. In L4DC 2025.
(2025). Neural Control and Certificate Repair via Runtime Monitoring. In Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025).
(2024). Certifying Phase Abstraction. In International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2024).
(2023). BIG Backbones. In Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD 2023).
(2022). Approximating Perfect Recall when Model Checking Strategic Abilities: Theory and Applications. In Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR).
Academic Service

Formal Aspects of Computing Journal, Reviewer.
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.