Yan Zhu

Overview

AI governance researcher and entrepreneur based at UC Berkeley. MPP from UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy with an AI governance specialization; Berkeley AI Safety Fellow; Co-Founder of AI Safety Sandbox, an AI governance startup incubating at Berkeley SkyDeck Pad13. Collaborator at MIT's AI Risk Repository (airisk.mit.edu). Consulting background spanning both U.S. and Chinese government agencies — including the U.S. Department of Energy, WWF, the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC), and the Shanghai City Government. Contributed to PECC conference recommendations as a partner event to the 2025 Paris AI Summit. Active on Xiaohongshu (小红书) covering AI governance and China tech policy discourse: https://xhslink.cn/m/52DWYMaOBtb

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• Open Community for AI Safety China (OCASC)AI安全开放社区AI governance course facilitatorHigh
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