Shih Ee, smiling, in a scarf in front of snowy mountains

Hi, I'm Shih Ee.

I'm a third-year engineering student at Cambridge, from Singapore. I think Singapore and the world at large is not nearly prepared enough for superintelligent AI. Writing about this at [blog name].

Previously I did empirical AI safety research with mentors now at Redwood Research and Anthropic, which was presented at an ICML workshop. Recently I also worked closely with the Singapore AI Safety Institute at IMDA, investigating model cyber capabilities. Currently I'm part of the student committee of the Cambridge AI Safety Hub.

I used to lock in more at school when it felt important. Also messed around with robots for a bit.

Selected work

All projects →
Blueprint-style sketch: documents feeding a small neural network whose outputs scatter across rings labelled hop 1 to hop 3

Towards Understanding LLM Generalization through Fine-tuning

How finetuning on a small, narrow set of factual documents affects the actions a model takes on downstream tasks. First author on the paper, which was presented at an ICML 2026 workshop. Done as part of SPAR with mentors now at Redwood Research (Keshav Shenoy) and Anthropic (Emil Ryd).

SPARICML 2026 workshop
Blueprint-style sketch: a swarm of agent nodes probing a cut-away phone, with a shield under test to the right

Agent swarm evaluations of Android cyber capabilities

Designed and built a swarm-based Inspect evaluation of frontier models' cyber capabilities against Android targets. Worked in IMDA's Biz-Tech group, which works closely with the Singapore AI Safety Institute. Also presented key takeaways from the HuggingFace–OpenAI and other loss-of-control incidents to decision makers.

IMDA · Singapore AISI*2026
Isometric engineering drawing of a wheeled robot with a sensor mast and front gripper, with dimensions

First place in the Cambridge Integrated Design Project

Led software and project management for a six-person team building a competition robot from scratch. Won first place across the Cambridge engineering year group. Features include a simulator, test suite and visualiser.

Cambridge2026

Writing

All writing →
Exploded engineering drawing of a capsule in section, granules spilling between the halves

Pilled

Weaning off the copium.

Aug 2026
Engineering drawing of a stack of ruled index cards with the top card lifted, and a pencil

Flashcards

What went wrong with how I studied.

Apr 2026
Blueprint-style sketch of a vernier caliper closing on an undefined object marked with a question mark

Write Down the Problem: The State of AI Safety Evaluations

The Feynman algorithm applied to evals.

Feb 2026

Other achievements