
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
- 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
- 2026
WitnessDo AI agents stop checking when their peers agree? A research note and open instrument, in progress.notecode
Projects
- 2025–2026
MiseA native iOS app I solo-developed that books hard-to-get restaurant tables by integrating Resy, OpenTable, and SevenRooms.
- 2025
RespireA web app that reads WHOOP sleep, HRV, and strain data to flag burnout risk up to a week early.
- 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.
- 2025
Headline classifierA course research report for Penn’s applied machine learning class.report
Experience
- 2026
AndurilSoftware engineer intern. Rewrote the autonomous behaviors catalog in C++ and Python, with testing from unit checks through hardware-in-the-loop.
- 2026
A-LifeSoftware engineer intern. Built a vision-model pipeline that reads medical reports into a biomarker catalog, and a collaborative clinical editor.
- 2025
HandshakeMOVE AI Fellow. Wrote adversarial prompts and graded frontier model outputs for reasoning, factuality, and safety failures.
- 2025
TRAKSoftware engineer intern. Built BERT-based models that predict vehicle sensor recalibration from 44,000+ service documents.
- 2024
FloraSoftware engineer intern. Helped build the alpha of Flora’s node-based canvas, which chains image, video, and text models into workflows.