Bo Li

CEO, Virtue AI; Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

Dr. Bo Li is the CEO of Virtue AI, a unified AI security platform that provides automated red teaming and real-time guardrail solutions for multimodal foundation model applications and agentic systems. Li is also an Associate Professor at CS department in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the recipient of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, AI's 10 to Watch, MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, C.W. Gear Outstanding Faculty Award, Intel Rising Star Award, Symantec Research Labs Fellowship, Rising Stars in EECS, Research Awards from Tech companies such as Amazon, Meta, Google, Intel, MSR, eBay, and IBM, and best paper awards at several top machine learning and security conferences. Her research focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of secure and trustworthy AI. Her work has been featured by several major publications and media outlets, including Nature, Wired, Fortune, and New York Times.