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?

Research

  1. 2026

    KRAKENA tethered multi-UUV architecture for cooperative sensing and interception of underwater threats. I built the prototype and its 40,700-trial Monte Carlo evaluation. IEEE OCEANS 2026, with Cornell, MIT, and Georgia Tech.paper

  2. 2026

    WitnessDo AI agents stop checking when their peers agree? A research note and open instrument, in progress.notecode

Projects

  1. 2025–2026

    MiseA native iOS app I solo-developed that books hard-to-get restaurant tables by integrating Resy, OpenTable, and SevenRooms.

  2. 2025

    RespireA web app that reads WHOOP sleep, HRV, and strain data to flag burnout risk up to a week early.

  3. 2025

    InstaLiteA social app with ranked feeds, real-time chat, and facial recognition, stress-tested at 10,000+ concurrent users with sub-second latency. Course project; code private.

  4. 2025

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

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. Helped build the alpha of Flora’s node-based canvas, which chains image, video, and text models into workflows.