Yong Zheng-Xin

I am a final-year PhD student at Brown University advised by Stephen Bach. I am fortunate to be supported by the Open Philanthropy (now Coefficient Giving) grant for technical AI safety.

I am currently an Astra Safety Research Fellow with OpenAI, mentored by Miles Wang and Olivia Watkins.

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Portrait of Yong Zheng-Xin

Research

I currently work on chain-of-thought monitorability as well as agentic failure mode elicitation.

I have also worked on the following (ordered by recency):

Personal site inspired by Tianyu Gao and Gregory Gundersen.