Yiqin Fu is a visiting scholar in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she studies U.S. AI policy and governance.

She is a J.D. candidate at Stanford Law School and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Stanford University, where her research focuses on the political economy of technology innovation, with a secondary concentration in statistical methodology.

She has held research fellowships at the Center for the Governance of AI and at AI Futures, where she studied open-source governance and led policy workshops for technical talent in emerging technology policy across Africa and Latin America. Previously, she worked as a research associate at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School.

Yiqin’s writing has appeared in The Journal of Legal Studies and in popular outlets such as The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Bloomberg, and the Financial Times. She has also been quoted in The Economist and MIT Technology Review.

She holds a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford.