Federico Mora

Faculty Affiliate

Federico Mora is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo. Federico received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2025 and then spent a year working at Amazon Web Services as an Applied Scientist. His core research mission is to make formal verification of real-world systems practical at an industrial scale. In pursuit of this goal, Federico builds domain-specific neuro-symbolic tools that combine the flexibility and power of AI with the rigorous guarantees of formal methods.

Research Interests

  • AI Safety
  • Software Engineering

Highlights

  • 2026 – David J. Sakrison Memorial Prize
  • 2024 – Winner of the QF_Datatypes division of SMT-COMP 2024
  • 2024 – Demetri Angelakos Memorial Achievement Award
  • 2021- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship