2026 SC Award Winner Bo Li - Innovator (Executive Or Practioner) Of The Year
SC Media, Wednesday, March 25th, 2026
Bo Li emerged over the past year as a leading voice in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence security, combining academic research with startup innovation to address the risks posed by powerful AI systems.
As the co-founder and CEO of Virtue AI, Li works to help organizations deploy generative AI safely while protecting against emerging threats such as prompt injection, data leakage, and malicious manipulation of AI models.
Li also serves as a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where her research focuses on trustworthy machine learning, adversarial AI, and the broader challenge of building systems that remain reliable under attack.