Co-hosted by Yale Club of Beijing, Yale International Alliance (YIA), Yale Graduate School Alumni Association, and Yale Center Beijing

Event Time

Wednesday, January 14, 2026
7:30 pm-9:00 pm | China Standard Time (CST)

Wednesday, January 14, 2026
6:30 am-8:00 am | Eastern Standard Time (EST)

Note: Registration for in-person participants will be open from 7:00 pm to 7:30 pm on January 14.

Location

Yale Center Beijing 
36th Floor Tower B of IFC Building 8 Jianguomenwai Avenue Chaoyang District, Beijing (Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C) 

Registration and Fees

· In-Person Participation
Please click “HERE” to register. Please send an email to yalecenterbeijing@yale.edu if there are any problems. If you encounter any payment issues, please attach a screenshot that identifies the issue. 

Ticket (In-Person): RMB 30

*The registration fee for the event is non-refundable. Unless due to a force majeure reason, Yale Center Beijing will not refund any part of the registration fee if a participant fails to attend the event.

Walk-ins will not be accepted.

The event will be in English.

Note: Seats are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

· Online Participation
Please scan the QR code below to register:

Ticket (Online): Free

*Registration is required to obtain ZOOM access details, which will be sent directly to the registered email address or phone number provided. Please enter the Zoom room 15 minutes before the starting time. Once the Zoom room reaches full capacity, latecomers will not be able to join the event.

The Event

On January 14, five Yale alumni from diverse fields will gather at Yale Center Beijing and online to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping everyday life and driving transformation across higher education, law, and business. 

Speakers (Online)

Scott Shapiro JD ’90
Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Yale Law School

Scott Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at Yale Law School. His scholarship spans the philosophy of law, international and criminal law, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Shapiro is the author of Legality (2011); The Internationalists (2017, with Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97); and Fancy Bear Goes Phishing (2023). He also co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (2002, with Jules Coleman). Shapiro holds a BA and PhD in philosophy from Columbia University and a JD from Yale Law School. He serves as co-editor of Legal Theory and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and his commentary has appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Foreign Affairs. Shapiro founded the Yale Documentary Project, which provides legal counsel to independent filmmakers, and co-founded the Yale Legal AI Lab, focused on the automation of legal reasoning. From 2024 to 2025, he was Special Assistant for AI Ethics to the Chief AI Officer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Sarah Senk ’03
Professor, Department of English, California Polytechnic State University

Sarah Senk is a professor in the Department of English at California Polytechnic State University and a co-host of “My Robot Teacher” (with Dr. Taiyo Inoue, a professor of Mathematics), a podcast about AI and higher education that features conversations with researchers, educators, and industry experts on how AI is impacting teaching and learning (available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify).

For the past decade, Dr. Senk has taught courses in written and oral communication, critical thinking, modern and contemporary literature, and cultural memory studies on the Cal Poly Maritime Academy campus. Her research interests include trauma and cultural memory in global English literature, speculative fiction and film, “slow disaster,” and commemoration in the digital age.

Dr. Senk graduated from Yale College in 2003 in Literature. After completing a Master of Studies in English from the University of Oxford, she earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at Cornell University in 2011, where she specialized in twentieth-century and contemporary global Anglophone literature and trauma/memory studies.

Alex Moore ’26
Publisher, Yale New Journal

Alex Moore is a senior at Yale, where he majors in mathematics and computer science. At Yale, Alex splits his time between technical and humanistic interests. On the technical side, Alex has done data science research on battery storage for solar energy, mechanical design for NASA’s ultralight Moon infrastructure, and machine learning for physics simulation in the defense industry. Beyond his technical pursuits, Alex ran Yale’s only nonpartisan student voter outreach group during the 2024 election cycle, led the Grace Hopper College Council, and recently founded the Yale chapter of Students for Abundance, a nonpartisan group devoted to education and advocacy on the Abundance Agenda. Alex is also Publisher at The New Journal, an award-winning Yale student journalistic magazine. Alex wrote the cover story for the most recent issue of The New Journal, titled “Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI,” a narrative study of AI culture on Yale’s campus. For this work, he interviewed nearly forty students, professors, and administrators to develop a comprehensive view of AI’s current impact on the Yale education.

Speaker (In-Person)

Martin Ma PhD ’07
Founder & CEO, Happy Universe

Martin Ma is the Founder and CEO of Happy Universe. He helped many startups and multinational companies in their digital/AI transformation and globalization. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University and a PhD in Computer Science from Yale University. He is also a Yale Graduate School Alumni Association Board member for 2024-2027.

Moderator (In-Person)

Kyle Wang ’85
Founder, Global Energy System Exchange, LLC

Kyle Kegang Wang has been a technology entrepreneur and investor over 20 years and a mentor to startup founders across multiple industries. He founded Global Energy System Exchange, LLC in 2005, a strategic consultancy in clean technology space. Kyle has served as CEOs in multiple early-stage companies where he built the executive team, syndicated capital, scaled up operations and secured tier-one global customers.

During the 18 years prior to his entrepreneurial career, Kyle held corporate roles as a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft; Vice President at RR Donnelley and Analyst at Russell Reynolds Associates. Kyle has served on over a dozen corporate and non-profit boards globally. He received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1993 and BA from Yale in 1985.