Ifeoma Ajunwa, Founding Director
Professor Ifeoma Ajunwa, JD, PhD, is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Projects & Partnerships, founding director of the AI and the Future of Work Program, and author of
The Quantified Worker, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. Ajunwa was recruited from UNC School of Law where she was a tenured law professor and the founding director of the Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making Research (AI-DR) Program. Ajunwa is a Resident Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP) for 2023-2024. She has been a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University since 2017. She was a 2019 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award to research the ethical development of A.I. hiring systems. Ajunwa’s research interests are the ethical governance, privacy, and discrimination issues associated with A.I. technologies. Dr. Ajunwa’s research expands to global legal issues of A.I. and (with Professor Anupam Chander), she is co-organizer of the Global AI Regulation Colloquium. She has a second book,
The Oxford Handbook on Algorithmic Governance and the Law (with Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl of Oxford University) forthcoming in 2024.
In addition to writing dozens of academic articles, Ajunwa was a columnist at Forbes, and published op-eds in the New York Times, Nature, Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Slate and The Atlantic, among others. She contributes to Jotwell’s Cyberlaw section and the Law and Political Economy (LPE) blog. Ajunwa’s legal commentary has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR), the Wall Street Journal, CNN, the Guardian, and the BBC. She has testified before Congress (the US House Committee on Education and Labor) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She is a Founding Board Member of the Labor Tech Research Network, a regular keynote speaker, and advisory board member for Fortune 500 tech companies.
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Ruth Demissie, Program Coordinator
Ruth Demissie is the program coordinator for AI and the Future of Program.
Kirin Chang,Associate Director & Research Fellow, AI and the Future of Work Program
Cheng-chi (Kirin) Chang is the
Associate Director & Research Fellow for the AI and the Future of Work Program at Emory University School of Law. His areas of focus include Law and Technology, Privacy, Intellectual Property, Cybersecurity, International Law, AI and Law, Contracts, Corporations, Corporate Social Responsibility, and emerging technologies. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the
Minnesota Law Review (Headnotes), the
University of Illinois Law Review (
Online, twice), the
Georgetown Journal of International Law, the
UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, the
Richmond Journal of Law and Technology, and the
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts, among others.
Chang has legal experience with multinational companies such as Volkswagen Group, Nestlé, Merck & Co., and Boehringer Ingelheim. He has also served as a Law Research Associate at the Institute for Studies on AI & Law at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He received his J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he attended on a full scholarship and was Senior Articles Editor of the Journal of Technology Law and Policy. He also holds an LL.M. from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and an LL.B. from National Chung Hsing University School of Law in Taiwan. Chang is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English, and enjoys playing badminton in his free time.
Education: JD, University of Florida Levin College of Law; LLM, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law; LLB, National Chung Hsing University School of Law in Taiwan.
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Yinn-Ching Lu, SJD Student and Research Scholar, AI and the Future of Work
Yinn-Ching Lu (呂胤慶) is a research scholar of the AI and the Future of Work Program at Emory University School of Law and research fellow of the AI Infrastructure Governance project funded by the Taiwan Technology and Science Council. He focuses on constitutional law, freedom of speech, privacy, and technology regulation from an interdisciplinary perspective. His recent work focuses on AI legal decision-making and the practices of the Taiwan Constitutional Court.
Yinn-Ching served as a law clerk at the Taiwan Constitutional Court from 2021 to 2023 and practiced law in Taiwan from 2017 to 2021. He holds an LL.B. degree from National Chengchi University and two LL.M. degrees from National Taiwan University and the University of Chicago Law School. He is currently pursuing an S.J.D. at Emory University.
