Wesley Dalton

Wesley Dalton

I'm a software engineer studying Computer Science and History at Penn, graduating in December 2026. I build products and mission-critical systems across autonomy, automation, and AI. I'm also an AI Safety Fundamentals Fellow with Safe AI @ Penn.

NowRunning the next Witness experiment: do AI agents stop checking for themselves when their peers agree?

Work

  1. 2026

    WitnessDo AI agents stop checking when their peers agree? A grounded test case, a toy model, and a first real-model pilot.

  2. 2026

    KRAKENCooperating underwater vehicles under limited communication. I built the prototype and its Monte Carlo evaluation. IEEE OCEANS 2026, with Cornell, MIT, and Georgia Tech.

  3. 2025–

    MiseA restaurant booking app for iOS that I build and run alone. 350 users, all through word of mouth.

  4. 2025

    RespireReads WHOOP sleep, HRV, and strain data to flag burnout risk early.

  5. 2025

    InstaLiteA social app with ranked feeds and real-time chat.

  6. 2025

    Headline classifierA research report for Penn’s applied machine learning course.

Experience

  1. 2026

    AndurilSoftware engineer intern. Rewrote the autonomous behaviors catalog in C++ and Python, with testing from unit checks through hardware-in-the-loop.

  2. 2026

    A-LifeSoftware engineer intern. Built a vision-model pipeline that reads medical reports into a biomarker catalog, and a collaborative clinical editor.

  3. 2025

    HandshakeMOVE AI Fellow. Wrote adversarial prompts and graded frontier model outputs for reasoning, factuality, and safety failures.

  4. 2025

    TRAKSoftware engineer intern. Built BERT-based models that predict vehicle sensor recalibration from 44,000+ service documents.

  5. 2024

    FloraSoftware engineer intern. Built the node-based pipeline that chains image, video, and text models across 10,000+ daily generations.