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Recent updates
Due to lack of time to update my Substack, this page is for a shortened update on my recent thoughts.
These are probably the topics you’d like to start if you’re interested in listening to me talking non-stop.
Working on (and I think they’re cool & fun)…
- 📣 BREAKING NEWS: I just quit my current job!
- After fully engaged in industrial AIoT product development for a year, I’ve decided it is time to return to being an AI scientist. I feel like the development work made limited contribution to technical innovation in my current position.
- I’m currently looking for AI scientist / independent researcher positions, focusing on empirical studies in frontier LLM scenarios and ready to develop my career in AI safety. If you’re hiring or would be interested in refering opportunities, feel free to reach out!
- (check out the first item of recent thoughts, yeah it kinda was a hint)
- working on studies about agent evaluation pipeline and sandbagging mechanisms of LLMs development to extend my interest in technical AI safety.
- thinking on how to achieve higher AI interpretability (especially mech interp) combining previous experiences in neuroscience and connectome studies.
- working on an interesting side project about dactylonomy w/ my friend Gina
- drafting digital rights lessons plans for junior high students with colleagues in judicial reform foundation.
- self-studying Spanish, German and Thai at the same time (with only limited proficiency in Spanish, at least for now, since I just started German and Thai few months ago).
Recently finished or published…
- Finished thesis “The Dynamics of Multi-Stakeholders and Policy Environment: From Digital Intermediary Service Act to AI Fundamental Act”, held a dual-research presentation & salon w/ my friend Steven.
- Just officially graduated from high school, which was unexpected a year ago (thought it’d be unnecessary to sacrifice my time for the diploma) but turns out I still managed to finish the credits.
Living with…
- 🥃 keen on trying all types of gin tonic with different gin (with friends) and scotch, with a particular love in brandy cask (with myself).
- 🥊 taking boxing courses with my friend Leon.
- 🎮 trying to make time for replaying one of my favorite games Nine Sols.
- 📺 rewatching Better Call Saul, recently just finished rewatching Suits, Breaking Bad and Adolescence
- 🚗 learning how to drive, hoping to pass the test on my first try (planning a road trip with my friends in Aug.)
Recent thoughs (also to remind myself)…
- I’ve spent time in industry roles solving AI efficiency and commercial value, and I’ve seen how models behave in production and its risks of unmonitored deployment. I want to apply the same technical rigor to safety-critical domains. Instead of optimizing for accuracy, I’d like to move toward optimizing for interpretability and robustness.
- Always remember to take a look around, are the people working with you still the people you want to work with? Do you still hold the same caring of values? Are they still your allies?
- A researcher’s “taste” is defined by the breadth of their knowledge. Having the vision to recognize great research (taste it), understand what makes it great (know it), and possess the capability to execute it (cook it).
- Interdisciplinary work requires you to first recognize that boundaries exist. You have to push far enough into one domain to hit the limits of its theories or tools, forcing you to bring in perspectives from another field, which is driven by the need to solve a specific problem.
Listening to…
I listen to pretty much everything but the following contains what I’m listening to recently. The links are in Spotify.
- Tame Impala
- Currents on repeat now
- no, I’m not a fan of the JENNIE’s version of Dracula
- Someshiit 山姆
- 楊世暄 Sam Yang
- Danzón No. 2 by Arturo Márquez on repeat
- Hamilton (Musical)
- I’m able to sing from Alexander Hamilton to Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story, try me
- one of the other things that I wish to listen in person before I die
- STORM by GENER8ION starring Yung Lean
- this one is a YouTube link since the music video is the whole point of sharing
- the choreography and cinematography are just, I’m stunned
- jesus I should be working by the time I’m writing this, but I’ve been watching the last half (starting 4:16) for the past hour
(last updated: 2026-06-29)