Sanjit A. Seshia
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Sanjit A. Seshia is a prominent computer scientist known for his contributions to formal methods and automated verification in engineering and computer science.
All labels observed (1)
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| Sanjit A. Seshia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9809518 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sanjit A. Seshia Context triple: [Infosys Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, notableRecipient, Sanjit A. Seshia]
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Richard M. Murray
Richard M. Murray is an American control theorist and professor of control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology, known for his contributions to feedback control, robotics, and systems biology.
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B.
Howie Choset
Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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C.
Chris Urmson
Chris Urmson is a robotics engineer and autonomous vehicle pioneer best known as a leader in self-driving car research and as a co-founder and CEO of Aurora Innovation.
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D.
Eric Feron
Eric Feron is an aerospace engineer and control theorist known for his work on optimization and control applications in aerospace systems.
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E.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sanjit A. Seshia Target entity description: Sanjit A. Seshia is a prominent computer scientist known for his contributions to formal methods and automated verification in engineering and computer science.
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A.
Richard M. Murray
Richard M. Murray is an American control theorist and professor of control and dynamical systems at the California Institute of Technology, known for his contributions to feedback control, robotics, and systems biology.
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B.
Howie Choset
Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
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C.
Chris Urmson
Chris Urmson is a robotics engineer and autonomous vehicle pioneer best known as a leader in self-driving car research and as a co-founder and CEO of Aurora Innovation.
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D.
Eric Feron
Eric Feron is an aerospace engineer and control theorist known for his work on optimization and control applications in aerospace systems.
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E.
Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer scientist
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researcher ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM Fellow
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CAV Award ⓘ Guggenheim Fellowship ⓘ IEEE Fellow ⓘ NSF CAREER Award ⓘ Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Berkeley, California
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linked to:
Berkeley
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Carnegie Mellon University
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linked to:
CMU
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ⓘ |
| employer | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Indian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
artificial intelligence safety
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automated verification ⓘ computer-aided verification ⓘ cyber-physical systems ⓘ design automation ⓘ formal methods ⓘ model checking ⓘ satisfiability modulo theories ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDegree |
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
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PhD in Computer Science ⓘ |
| hasResearchArea |
computer science
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electrical engineering ⓘ |
| hasRole |
faculty member in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley
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research group leader in formal methods and cyber-physical systems ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
research papers on counterexample-guided abstraction refinement
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research papers on formal methods for AI and machine learning ⓘ research papers on satisfiability modulo theories ⓘ research papers on verification of cyber-physical systems ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Association for Computing Machinery
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
applications of formal methods to AI and machine learning
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applications of formal methods to cyber-physical systems ⓘ work on counterexample-guided abstraction refinement (CEGAR) ⓘ work on satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) ⓘ |
| notableWork | textbook on formal methods and models for system design ⓘ |
| occupation | Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences ⓘ |
| researchInterest |
design of reliable and secure systems
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formal verification of hardware and software ⓘ synthesis from formal specifications ⓘ verification of autonomous systems ⓘ |
| workInstitution | University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sanjit A. Seshia Description of subject: Sanjit A. Seshia is a prominent computer scientist known for his contributions to formal methods and automated verification in engineering and computer science.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.