Hey! I'm Andy Wang.

AI Safety Researcher | UW Madison CS & Math

I am a student at the University of Wisconsin Madison studying Math and Computer Sciences. You might know me by my online alias yeedrag.

I believe that ensuring AI is safe and aligned might be the most important problem we have now, and we might not have a lot of time to do so. I want to help humanity solve this problem by doing technical AI safety research, and understand how we can control AI models to prevent malicious behavior.

Contact Me LinkedIn GitHub Discord: yeedrag

Experience

Astra Research Fellow

Jan 2026 – Present

Constellation Research Center (Full-time)

  • Incoming safety research fellow working with Scott Emmons (prev. Google DeepMind) on CoT monitorability.

AI Safety Research Fellow

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

Supervised Program for Alignment Research (Berkeley, CA)

  • Investigated various properties on CoT Monitorability, mentored by Qiyao Wei.

AI Security Research Intern

May 2025 – Dec 2025

American Family Insurance (Madison, WI)

  • Conducted red-team assessments on internal AI infrastructure, received return offer to develop model safeguards.

Deputy Director

May 2025 – Present

Wisconsin AI Safety Initiative

  • Reframing strategy to focus on producing AI safety professionals.
  • Connecting with researchers to refine strategies for safety-focused groups.

Interests

Research Areas

  • CoT Monitorability
  • AI Control
  • Eval Awareness
  • Misalignment & Generalization

Personal

  • Combinatorics
  • Number Theory
  • Video Games
  • Cooking