Antonio-Gabriel Chacón Menke

Education

M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision

Kempten University of Applied Sciences — Kempten, Germany

Thesis: Monitoring What Models Think: Steering Vectors as a Tool for AI Safety and Control

Aug 2023 – present

Research Exchange Student — AI Safety

Shibaura Institute of Technology — Tokyo, Japan

Research on Constitutional AI, Representation Engineering, and safety evaluation of reasoning models.

Jan 2025 – Aug 2025

Exchange Student — Sandwich Program

Shibaura Institute of Technology — Tokyo, Japan

Coursework: Advanced Neural Engineering, AI Application and Safety, and Ubiquitous Computing

Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

B.Sc. Informatik dual – KoSI

Hochschule Darmstadt — Darmstadt, Germany

Thesis: Feasibility of using a centralized LoRaWAN sensor network to track crowd flow in public spaces using passive Wi-Fi probe signals from mobile devices.

Oct 2018 – Mar 2022

Publications

Annotating the Chain-of-Thought: A Behavior-Labeled Dataset for AI Safety

Antonio-Gabriel Chacón Menke, Phan Xuan Tan, Eiji Kamioka · arXiv preprint, October 2025 ·
arxiv.org/abs/2510.18154

How Effective Is Constitutional AI in Small LLMs? A Study on DeepSeek-R1 and Its Peers

Antonio-Gabriel Chacón Menke, Phan Xuan Tan · ICLR 2025 Workshop on Human-AI Coevolution (HAIC) ·
arxiv.org/abs/2503.17365
🏆 Best Poster — Technical AI Safety Conference 2025, Tokyo

Conferences & Talks

Technical AI Safety Conference 2025

Tokyo, Japan · Poster presentation & Best Poster Award

2025

ICLR 2025 — Workshop on Human-AI Coevolution (HAIC)

Singapore · Paper accepted and presented

2025

Training & Activities

Technical AI Safety — BlueDot Impact

Course covering AI alignment, interpretability, governance, and AI control.

Jan – Feb 2026

APART Research Hackathon on AI Control

Three-day research hackathon focused on AI control and scalable oversight.

Mar 2026

Work Experience

Computer Science Student — Dual Study

COUNT+CARE GmbH & Co. KG — Darmstadt, Germany

Projects in robotics, microcontroller programming, long-range communications (LoRaWAN), and privacy-friendly sensing solutions.

Oct 2018 – Mar 2022

Languages

Spanish (native) · German (native) · English (fluent) · Japanese (basic — N5)