Building Verification-Native Autonomous Systems for Mission-Critical AI

The next frontier in agentic AI requires systems that reason about their own correctness, learn from failure, and scale under formal guarantees.

The Bottleneck Has Shifted

Past Constraint

Generation

Large Language Models removed constraints in content generation, workflow planning, and decision making.

New Frontier

Verification

Mission-critical systems demand reliability, long-horizon stability, and provable correctness.

Our Thesis: Solve scalable correctness, unlock scalable autonomy. When systems verify their own behavior, intelligence scales safely.

The Window for Safe Autonomous AI Is Closing

Deployment is Outpacing Safety

Enterprises are racing to deploy autonomous agents in high-stakes environments—finance, healthcare, manufacturing—without verification infrastructure. Early failures will set the entire field back.

The Tools Are Ready

Proof assistants like Lean have reached production maturity. LLMs can now translate natural language to formal specifications. The convergence of AI and formal methods is happening now.

India's Moment

With world-class talent in mathematics, logic, and software engineering, India is uniquely positioned to lead in verified AI—before the paradigm solidifies elsewhere.

The next 2-3 years will determine whether autonomous AI becomes trustworthy infrastructure or triggers an agent winter. We're building the foundations now.

Building Verification-Native Autonomous Systems

Emergence Autonomous Systems Lab advances self-improving AI by making verification a foundational principle.

We build provably reliable systems that accelerate discovery and engineering, unlocking material advances for humanity. Our goal: make verification-native autonomy the default paradigm, so reliability scales with capability and trustworthy AI becomes infrastructure rather than exception.

5-Year Milestones: Establish India as a global hub for verified autonomy research. Deploy verification-first systems in semiconductors and enterprise data pipelines. Train 1,000+ practitioners in formal methods and agentic AI. Publish breakthrough research bridging Lean proof systems with autonomous agents.

Reduce Human Supervision

Shift humans from operators to architects of self-sustaining systems

Accelerate Discovery

Enable science and engineering to advance predictably, not drift

Scale Safely

Expand autonomy without sacrificing reliability

Unifying Agentic and Formal Verification

Scalable autonomous AI demands both collaborative agent-level checks and mathematical guarantees. We bridge these paradigms:

Agentic Verification

Agents verify the work of other agents over long horizons—collaborative correctness checks at the system level.

Formal Verification

Mathematical proofs using tools like Lean ensure provable correctness with machine-checkable guarantees.

World-Class Expertise in Formal Methods and AI

Chief Scientist & Head

Prasenjit Dey

Emergence AI

Leading the lab's research agenda in verification-native autonomous systems, bridging cutting-edge AI research with formal verification methods for mission-critical applications.

Chief Scientist

Siddhartha Gadgil

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Renowned mathematician and pioneer in automated theorem proving and formal verification. Leading research in applying proof assistants to AI systems.

Publications & Open Science

Our research advances the science of verified autonomous systems through rigorous publications, open-source tools, and collaboration with the global research community.

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers on verification-first agent architectures, formal methods for AI safety, and Lean-based system verification

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Technical Blog

Deep dives into our research, tutorials on formal verification with Lean, and insights from deploying verified systems

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Open Source

Tools and libraries for building verification-native agents, bridging LLMs with proof assistants

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Research & Engineering Focus Areas

Verification-First Autonomous Agents

Agent architectures where planning, memory, and learning are guided by correctness constraints.

Natural Language to Formal Knowledge

Systems that transform real-world specifications into structured domain knowledge suitable for machine-checkable verification.

Formal Methods for AI Systems

Advancing the use of proof assistants—especially Lean—to verify data pipelines, workflows, and agent behavior.

Domain-Grounded AI

Initial focus on semiconductors and complex data transformation pipelines, with tools designed to generalize across industries.

Open Research & Tooling

Open-source tools and applied systems that advance the global state of the art and help companies deploy autonomous AI safely at scale.

Positioning India as a Global Center for Trustworthy Autonomous Systems

Based in India, the lab bridges research, industry, and public institutions—converting frontier ideas in agentic AI and formal verification into deployable systems, open tools, and trained talent.

Research Excellence

Advancing verified autonomy as a science

Industry Impact

Deploying systems in semiconductors and enterprise

Public Collaboration

Partnering with institutions for national-scale impact

Building India's Capacity in Formal Verification and Agentic AI

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Hands-On Training in Lean

Practical workshops on proof assistants and formal verification techniques

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Research Workshops

Collaborative sessions exploring frontier problems in verified autonomy

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Hackathons

Building real-world autonomous systems with verification constraints

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Institutional Collaboration

Long-term partnerships with Indian universities and research centers

Join Us in Building the Future of Trustworthy AI

We're looking for researchers, engineers, and partners who share our vision of verification-native autonomous systems.