Eric Spencer


News

2026-06-05tla-prover accepted at ICSOFT 2026. [link]
2026-04-17Presented ChatTLA+ at Loyola's Undergraduate Research & Engagement Symposium. [link]
2026-04Released chattla-20b on Hugging Face. [model]
2026-04Paper Can LLMs Write Correct TLA+ Specifications? accepted to and presented at ICSOFT 2026 (Porto). [paper]
2026-04Co-author on the GSIRS 2026 poster about systematic evaluation of LLM to TLA+ synthesis. [poster]
2025-05Awarded the Mulcahy Scholar stipend for LLM-based TLA+ research. [link]

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About

Graduate researcher at Loyola University Chicago, working on formal methods and large language models. Member of Technical Staff at HorneSci.

At the AI4FM / FMitF group under Prof. Konstantin Läufer: systematic evaluation of LLM-generated TLA+, the chattla-20b model, and a paper at ICSOFT 2026. Outside the lab: the Resilient compiler, macOS and iOS apps, and FROM AMERICA LLC. Erdős number: 5.

Research

TLA+ specification generationLanguage models and formal verification
ChatTLA+ datasetTraining data for TLA+ generation
ResilientProgramming language with Z3-verified contracts

Papers, models, and datasets

Selected Work

PalindromePalindromic sentence generator
Not HotdogBrowser image classifier
I Paid For This ShirtShirt price printed on shirt

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Experience

Member of Technical Staff
Jun 2026 — present
Founder
May 2026 — present
Researcher
Aug 2025 — present
Software Engineer
May 2025 — Aug 2025
Manager, Marketing CX Study
Jan 2025 — Dec 2025
Software Engineer
Jan 2025 — May 2025
IT Services Desk Technician
Jul 2024 — May 2026
Undergraduate Research Assistant
May 2023 — Aug 2023