Jianlin Herman Li
Phd Student
Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
               

I am a Ph.D. student at Programming Languages Group, University of Waterloo (started from Fall 2021). I am co-supervised by Yizhou Zhang and Ondřej Lhoták.

I am generally interested in code-level verification of real-world software and interactive theorem proving (Coq and Agda).

Now I'm actively working with Yizhou on type system based approaches targeting efficient, reliable and certified probabilistic programming.

Peer-Reviewed Publications at University of Waterloo
    PLDI 2024
Compiling Probabilistic Programs for Variable Elimination with Information Flow

Jianlin Li, Eric Wang, Yizhou Zhang

    POPL 2023
Type-Preserving, Dependence-Aware Guide Generation for Sound, Effective Amortized Probabilistic Inference

Symbolic methods (a type system and an analysis) aid in neural-network-based inference.

Jianlin Li, Leni Ven, Pengyuan Shi, Yizhou Zhang

[DOI |TR]

Peer-Reviewed Publications at Saarland University
    CAV 2021
Automated Safety Verification of Programs Invoking Neural Networks

Maria Christakis, Hasan Ferit Eniser, Holger Hermanns, Jörg Hoffmann, Yugesh Kothari, Jianlin Li, Jorge A. Navas, Valentin Wüstholz

[DOI]

Peer-Reviewed Publications at ISCAS
    TACAS 2021
Improving Neural Network Verification through Spurious Region Guided Refinement

Pengfei Yang, Renju eLi, Jianlin Li, Cheng-Chao Huang, Jingyi Wang, Jun Sun, Bai Xue, and Lijun Zhang

[DOI]

    ESEC/FSE 2020
PRODeep: A Platform for Robustness Verification of Deep Neural Networks

Renjue Li, Jianlin Li, Cheng-Chao Huang, Pengfei Yang, Xiaowei Huang, Lijun Zhang, Bai Xue, and Holger Hermanns

[DOI |video]

    SAS 2019
Analyzing Deep Neural Networks With Symbolic Propagation: Towards Higher Precision and Faster Verification

Jianlin Li, Jiangchao Liu, Pengfei Yang, Liqian Chen, Xiaowei Huang, and Lijun Zhang

[DOI]

    QEST 2018
Verifying Probabilistic Timed Automata Against ω-regular Dense-Time Properties

Hongfei Fu, Yi Li, and Jianlin Li

[DOI]

Thesis
Symbolic Propagation Based Local Robustness Verification of Deep Neural Networks and Verification Platform

Jianlin Li. Master’s thesis. Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2021.

Translating LTL to FDFA and FDFA Model Checking

Jianlin Li. Bachelor’s thesis. Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2018.

Other Activities
Sub-Reviewer: LICS 2018, TASE 2019, FM 2019, FMAC 2019, TACAS 2021.
Student Volunteer: CONCUR 2018, SSFM 2018 2019, LICS 2020.
Misc
I shoot City & Architecture, landscapes,street, and portraits. I also enjoy karaoke and playing the guitar.