Yilin Huang

Math & Political Science @ Amherst College. I like working on problems where cooperation seems unlikely but matters a lot.

currently

  • Directing AI Safety at Amherst (AISA)
  • Leading Project Synesis: a dashboard analyzing Chinese government and AI leader statements on AI safety
  • Planning a summer fellowship to bring early-career US-China researchers to China

previously

  • Research taste, AI R&D Automation Thresholds, Corporate Governance
  • 2025 UChicago Existential Risk Lab Summer Fellowship, 2024 Nontrivial Fellowship (+ facilitating later)
  • Won first place (export controls track) at Berkeley AI Safety's 2026 National Policy Hackathon