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Grigore Rosu

Grigore Rosu

Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; founder of Intent Computing, Pi Squared and Runtime Verification

ExecutiveDirectorRoles at 2 startups
Updated Nov 10, 2026·Latest SEC filing Oct 23, 2026·Suggest an edit

About Grigore Rosu

Grigore Rosu is a professor at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He leads the Formal Systems Laboratory, which he founded in 2002 when he joined Illinois from NASA. He also founded three companies: Runtime Verification, Pi Squared and Intent Computing. His research covers programming language design, formal methods, and the use of artificial intelligence to generate formally verified code from intent.

Before he joined Illinois in 2002, he was a research scientist at NASA Ames. In 2010 he founded Runtime Verification, Inc. to commercialize runtime verification technology. Its customers include NASA, Boeing, Toyota, Denso and blockchain companies such as Tezos and Algorand. He created the K framework in 2003 and has worked on its logical foundation, matching logic, since 2010. He is an IEEE Fellow and an AAAS Fellow.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Grigore Rosu in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Current
Professor
Intent Computing, Inc.
Founder, President and CEO, director
2026 · Chicago, IL
A 2026 startup built on founder Grigore Rosu's view that proof, not testing, should check AI-written code.
Pi Squared Inc. / DE
Co-Founder, CEO and director
2024 – 2026 · Champaign, IL
Develops a payment system for AI agents to move money.
NASA Ames
research scientist
2002

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Grigore Rosu works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Intent Computing, Inc. · Form D, Oct 23, 2026
ZH
Zhixuan Huang
Executive officer, director and promoter
MA
Musab Alturki
Secretary
Pi Squared Inc. / DE · Form D/A, Apr 13, 2026
ZH
Zhixuan Huang
Executive officer and director
MA
Musab Alturki
Chief Operating Officer

Sources

  1. SECIntent Computing, Inc. Form D, filed Oct 23, 2026
  2. SECPi Squared Inc. / DE Form D/A, filed Apr 13, 2026