{"id":40789,"date":"2024-03-20T14:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?p=40789"},"modified":"2024-06-13T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T16:42:09","slug":"wenchao-li-receives-prestigious-nsf-career-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wenchao-li-receives-prestigious-nsf-career-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Wenchao Li Receives Prestigious NSF Career Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22055\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22055\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cise\/files\/2018\/03\/Wenchao-Li-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"203\" class=\"wp-image-22055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2018\/03\/Wenchao-Li-4.png 426w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2018\/03\/Wenchao-Li-4-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2018\/03\/Wenchao-Li-4-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wenchao Li, Assistant Professor ENG (ECE, SE, CS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wenchao Li (ECE, SE, CS) was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to further his research on specification-guided imitation learning (IL). Li uses a combination of formal methods and machine learning to build safe and trustworthy autonomous systems. The CAREER award is a five-year grant that will support Li\u2019s research in this area.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imitation learning involves robots and artificial intelligence (AI) systems learning from demonstrations by human agents or expert agents. However, issues arise because \u201cHuman demonstrations can be inadequate, partial, imperfect, environment-specific, or suboptimal in practice,\u201d Li explains.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through this NSF award, Li will develop a novel framework for the process of IL to be guided by theories and algorithms with formal specifications. His research will explore which types of specifications are appropriate for different scenarios and how to incorporate specifications into data-driven learning processes, such as IL.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more about his award <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2024\/03\/12\/wenchao-li-receives-nsf-career-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wenchao Li (ECE, SE, CS) was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to further his research on specification-guided imitation learning (IL). Li uses a combination of formal methods and machine learning to build safe and trustworthy autonomous systems. The CAREER award is a five-year grant that will support Li\u2019s research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18553,"featured_media":41020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[127],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40789"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40798,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40789\/revisions\/40798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}