Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.David McCullough

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.Alan Kay

Hi, I’m Huascar (pronounced wäs-kär), an AI researcher at Charles Schwab’s AI.x group. Before that, I was a Senior Computer Scientist at SRI’s Computer Science Laboratory, and earlier still, a Graduate Researcher at the Software Introspection Lab at UC Santa Cruz, where I worked with Jim Whitehead.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz in December 2015, and my MS in Software Engineering from San Jose State University in 2006. My research interests lie at the intersection of AI and software engineering, focusing on multi-LLM collaboration optimization and LLM chemistry estimation — techniques I apply to specification learning, code generation, and program repair. I combine these with static and dynamic program analysis, AI assurance, and AI red teaming to ensure they are reliable and robust in high-stakes domains — and social-cyber security to protect the integrity of open-source ecosystems.

I was the PI on DARPA Social Cyber and have contributed to several DARPA-funded efforts, including DARPA ARCOS and DARPA MUSE. As a DARPA Social Cyber PI, I developed data-driven software introspection technology to protect open-source project software supply chains from social and technical attacks.

My Erdös number is 3: P. Schweitzer, B.D. McKay, and P. Erdös.

Cheers,
Huascar A. Sanchez
huascar dot sanchez at gmail dot com