Wenhao Li (李 文灏)

I’m a PhD student in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Scott Sanner and Prof. Elias Khalil. I hold a Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours) from the University of Waterloo.

I believe programs are taking on two new forms: natural-language instructions executed by LLMs, and neural networks whose architectures and weights encode executable behavior. I study how these programs can be learned from data through world modelling—and how they can recombine existing knowledge to generalize beyond training. Our work on Structure-Aware Graph Hypernetworks demonstrates one path forward.

Before returning to academia, I co-founded AIH Technology and Veriplum, leading AI R&D and technology development. That builder’s perspective keeps my research ambitious, grounded, and executable.