Kevin Liao

Kevin is a joint J.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Law School and MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is affiliated with MIT’s Internet Policy Research Initiative and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, and the law firm Fish & Richardson P.C. His research focuses on legal-technical co-design—how legal theory and technical design can inform one another to advance safety, privacy, transparency, accountability, and innovation. More broadly, his work examines the intersection of technology, law, policy, and economics, with particular emphasis on data governance, AI governance, privacy, intellectual property, administrative law, and antitrust. Kevin and his wife, Lily, serve as senior leaders at Hilltop Church in Boston. They recently welcomed their son, Elijah.