Agenda

Dr. Lan Xue is a Distinguished Professor and Dean at Schwarzman College Tsinghua University. His teaching and research interests include global governance, crisis management, and science, technology and innovation policy. From 2000 to 2018, he served as Associate Dean, Executive Associate Dean and Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University.  He also holds adjunct positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the Brookings Institution. Dr. Xue advises the State Council, chairs China's National Expert Committee on Next Generation AI governance, and is a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology. Internationally, he serves on the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network board, UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration, and UN Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel. 

Dr. Xue is a recipient of Distinguished Young Scholar Award from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, the Fudan Distinguished Contribution Award for Management Science, the Distinguished Contribution Award from Chinese Association for Science of Science and S&T Policy, and the Second National Award for Excellence in Innovation in China. He holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Ya-Qin Zhang is Chair Professor of AI Science at Tsinghua University, and Dean of Institute for AI Industry Research of Tsinghua University (AIR). He was the President of Baidu Inc. from 2014 to 2019. Prior to Baidu, Dr. Zhang was a Microsoft executive for 16 years with different key positions, including Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia, Chairman of Microsoft China, and Corporate Vice President and Chairman of Microsoft Asia R&D.

Dr. Zhang was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAA&S), the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the Euro-Asia Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of IEEE and CAAI. He is one of the top scientists and technologists in digital video and AI, with over 500 papers, 60 granted US patents, and 11 books. His original research has become the basis for start-up ventures, new products, and international standards in digital video, cloud computing, and autonomous driving.

He serves on the Board of Directors of four public companies. He is on the industry board of United Nation Development Program (UNDP), and AI global council of the Davos World Economic Forum. He is the Chairman of world’s largest open autonomous driving platform “Apollo” alliance with over 200 global partners. He has been an active speaker in global forums including APEC, Davos, United Nations, and Bo’Ao Asia Forum.

Dr. LIANG Zheng now serves as the Professor of the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, as well as the research fellow and vice dean of Institute for AI International Governance of Tsinghua University (I-AIIG)，the research fellow and deputy director of China Institute for Science&Technology Policy at Tsinghua University (CISTP).

Dr. Liang got his doctor’s degree of economics at Nankai University(2003) and accomplished the senior executive training program on leadership at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2010). He had visited at MIT Industrial Performance Center (MIT IPC) as the Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar for one year (2012).

The main areas of his research now focus on Science, Technology and Innovation Policy,Globalization of R&D, IPRs and Standardization, Emerging Technology and Innovation Governanceetc.Besides academic publishing on peer review journals such as National Science Review,Journal of Informetrics, World Economy etc. Dr. Liangalso participated in some important research projects such as the Strategic Research for National Medium and Long Term Science and Technology Development Program(MLP) of China.He used to be the member of National Innovation Survey Expert Group (2014-2017), as well as the member of Sino-US Innovation Dialogue Expert Group (2015-2018).

Dr. Wallace S. Cheng is a leading expert in trade, the digital economy, and sustainability. He currently holds the position of Head of Impact, Innovation, and Development at Globethics, a globally renowned Swiss Foundation committed to advancing responsible leadership. Prior to assuming this role, he held esteemed positions within organizations such as the United Nations World Food Programme, the German Institute of Development and Sustainability, the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development, and the Shanghai Development Research Center.

In addition to his impressive career, Wallace is recognized as an Asia Society 21 Young Leader and a Yale University World Fellow. He also serves as an Agenda Contributor at the World Economic Forum since 2015 and is a highly respected faculty member at the United Nations Institute of Training and Research. With his educational foundation in development economics from Fudan University and the University of Oxford, Dr. Cheng stands out as an accomplished scholar and practitioner.

Alexander Kriebitz is a lecturer at Technical University of Munich, 80333 Munich, Germany. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI) and human rights, AI ethics, and business ethics. Kriebitz received a Ph.D. He serves as the accountability criteria review lead of the IEEE CertifAIEd AI Ethics Program.

He is also a political scientist, who studies the overlap of international law, business ethics and international relations. His current project is a re-examination of literature on Business and Human Rights and the division of labor between states and companies in fulfilling human rights responsibilities. More generally, his research interests include the impact of artificial intelligence on human rights and the ethical conduct of technological and commercial exchange with authoritarian regimes.

Prof. Weixing Shen is currently a Professor of Law and Dean at Tsinghua University School of Law. He holds an LL.B. and LL.M. from Jilin University, a Ph.D. from the China University of Political Science and Law, and completed his postdoctoral research at Peking University. Internationally, he has been a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Law, University of Cologne (1999–2000), a senior visiting scholar at the University of Freiburg (2002), a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard Law School (January–October 2009), and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Germany (2015–2016).

Domestically, Professor Shen has served at Tsinghua University since 2003, becoming a full professor in 2008 after previously working as an associate professor. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Peking University (2001–2003) and held academic positions at Jilin University from 1992 to 2001. He also holds leadership positions in several national academic organizations, including serving as Executive Council Member of the Civil Law Research Association of the China Law Society, and Vice President of the China Health Law Society, the China Legal Education Society, the China Cyber and Information Law Society, and the Property Law Research Association of the Beijing Law Society.

His research focuses on property law, contract law, tort law, and bioethics and health law. He has led several influential research projects, such as Study on the Theory of the Right of Expectation, Study on Reservation of Ownership and Reference, Modern Security System and Legislation on Property Rights in China, and Study on the Legal Problem of Human Organ Donation and Transplantation. His academic contributions have been widely recognized, earning honors such as the Second Prize at the 1997 Forum of Civil and Economics Law, the Best Research Prize from the China Law Society (2006), the Tsinghua University Young Scholar Award (2006), and the prestigious title of one of the “National Top Ten Outstanding Young Jurists” (2014). His work Study on the Theory of the Right of Expectation also received the Second Prize in the Tenth Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Excellence Achievement Award.

Vincent Vanhoucke is a Distinguished Engineer at Waymo. His research has spanned many areas of artificial intelligence and machine learning, from speech recognition to computer vision and robotics. His Udacity lecture series has introduced over 100,000 students to Deep Learning. He founded the Robotics research team, now part of Google DeepMind, and is President of the Robot Learning Foundation, which organizes the Conference on Robot Learning, now in its eighth year. He holds a doctorate from Stanford University and a diplôme d'ingénieur from the École Centrale Paris.

Helen K. Pan, General Manager of Apollo Autonomous Driving USA, joined Baidu’s Intelligent Driving Group in 2017. Her responsibilities include developing autonomous driving technology and US site driverless HW&SW suite development from concept, to implementation, to manufacturing, and to fleet operations. Prior to joining Baidu, she held various technical and leadership roles in the fields of autonomous driving systems, satellite/UAV communication, 3/4/5G, and RF instrument development at Waymo, Google-X, Intel, and Keysight (Former Agilent/HP).  Her technology and products development interests include RF/microwave circuits and systems, wireless & mm-wave technology, and autonomous driving hardware and software system design, validation, and deployment.

Helen received her Master of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her graduate paper won the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society H. A. Wheeler Prize Paper Award. Helen holds 20 US/international patents, has 49 publications in various journals and international conferences, and has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) member and section chairs for various IEEE conferences, and served on the board of directors of several companies.