I'm Shenton (Shentao) Yan — a postgraduate student in Low-Altitude Economics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, after an undergraduate degree in Supply Chain Management at Shenzhen University.

I work on operations research and mechanism design, and I keep wandering into blockchain standards and multi-agent AI. I write in both 中文 and English.

🔭 I'm currently working on:

• sealed-bid-award-erc, a draft Ethereum standard for a sealed-bid award mechanism in agent task tenders
• autoscientists, an automated research loop that takes a research idea through to a pull request
• pol2-sycophancy-experiment, a third-party condition test for sycophancy in language models
• dao-governance-replication, an independent replication of a published study on DAO-based deliberation and voting for AI governance

🧪 Research threads, not all of them repositories yet:

• Low-altitude logistics: network design, congestion at landing points, and resilience in megacity drone delivery
• Auction and market design for construction and demolition waste trading in Shenzhen, including a differentiable mechanism-design benchmark
• Multi-agent AI and its governance — I've been reading the Ethereum standards for agent memory, including ERC-8350
• Community co-governance with NaturalDAO, where I contribute to the PoL2 documents

🗂️ And a few more:

• pol2-governance-compiler, turns PoL2 governance documents into checkable rules
• pol2-jev-honesty, honesty probes for typed-decision models
• pol2-laya-studio, a workbench for the PoL2 experiments

Older coursework, experiments, and forks are in the repository list.

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