Publications

• Reasoning about the Garden of Forking Paths
  by Yao Li, Li-yao Xia, Stephanie Weirich
  the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), 2021
   Pre-print  Artifact
• Verifying an HTTP Key-Value Server with Interaction Trees and VST
  by Hengchu Zhang, Wolf Honoré, Nicolas Koh, Yao Li, Yishuai Li, Li-Yao Xia, Lennart Beringer, William Mansky, Benjamin Pierce, Steve Zdancewic
  12th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP), 2021
   Paper (open access)  Artifact
• Verified Transformations and Hoare Logic: Beautiful Proofs for Ugly Assembly Language
  by Jay Bosamiya, Sydney Gibson, Yao Li, Bryan Parno, Chris Hawblitzel
  12th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE), 2020
   Paper  Pre-print
• A Scala based Framework for Developing Acceleration Systems with FPGAs
  by Yanqiang Liu, Yao Li, Zhengwei Qi, Haibing Guan
  Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 98, 2019
   Paper
• From C to Interaction Trees: Specifying, Verifying, and Testing a Networked Server
  by Nicolas Koh, Yao Li, Yishuai Li, Li-yao Xia, Lennart Beringer, Wolf Honoré, William Mansky, Benjamin C. Pierce, Steve Zdancewic
  8th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP), 2019
   Paper (public access)
• Ready, Set, Verify! Applying hs-to-coq to real-world Haskell code (Experience Report)
  by Joachim Breitner, Antal Spector-Zabusky, Yao Li, Christine Rizkallah, John Wiegley, Stephanie Weirich
  the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), 2018
   Talk  Paper (open access)  Journal Version  Journal Pre-print  Artifact
• AutoBench: Finding Workloads That You Need Using Pluggable Hybrid Analyses
  by Yudi Zheng, Andrea Rosa, Luca Salucci, Yao Li, Haiyang Sun, Omar Javed, Lubomír Bulej, Lydia Y. Chen, Zhengwei Qi, Walter Binder
  23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER), 2016
   Paper
• ScalaHDL: Express and Test Hardware Designs in a Scala DSL
  by Yao Li, Antonio R. Lopes, Zhouyun Xu, Zhengwei Qi, Haibing Guan,
  32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2014
   Paper

Draft

• Embracing a Mechanized Formalization Gap
  by Antal Spector-Zabusky, Joachim Breitner, Yao Li, Stephanie Weirich
   Talk  Pre-print

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant: Theory of Computation (University of Pensylvania), 2018 Spring
• Teaching Assistant: Advanced Programming (University of Pennsylvania), 2017 Fall
• Teaching Assistant: Programming and Data Structures II (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), 2013 Fall

Experience

• Research Intern at Microsoft
  Jun. 2018 - Aug. 2018, Redmond, WA, USA
  Vale Project, under supervision of Chris Hawblitzel
• Visiting Researcher at University of Lugano
  Mar. 2015 - Jun. 2015, Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
  Dynamic Analysis Group, under supervision of Walter Binder
• Software Development Engineer Intern at Microsoft
  Jun. 2012 - Sep. 2012, Shanghai, China
  Infrastructure team, under supervision of Zhiliang Xu

Services

• Artifact Evaluation Committee: ICFP'21, POPL'21
• Student Volunteer: ICFP'21, ICFP'20, DeepSpec Summer School'17

Honors & Awards

• Google Open Source Peer Bonus (for Scala Forklift), 2018
• Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2016
• China National Scholarship, 2014
• Outstanding Graduate of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2013
• China National Scholarship, 2012
• Most Popular Collegiate Innovation Projects of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2012
• 1st Prize in the 4th Intel Cup National Collegiate Software Innovation Contest in China, 2011
• 1st Prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, 2008
• 1st Prize in National Olympiad in Informatics in Provinces, 2007