Emmie Hine is a researcher at the Safe AI Forum (SAIF) focusing on the Chinese AI governance ecosystem. Previously, she was a researcher at the Yale Digital Ethics Center and now serves as a Policy Fellow. She is an International Governance affiliate of Concordia AI and writes the China AI Bulletin, a fortnightly breakdown of Chinese AI governance, safety, and development.
Emmie completed her Ph.D. in Law, Science, and Technology at the University of Bologna and KU Leuven. Her doctoral research portfolio included work assessing AI governance approaches across jurisdictions. She earned an M.Sc. at the Oxford Internet Institute as a Shirley Scholar, where her thesis compared American and Chinese AI governance policies, and she completed her B.A. in Computer Science and Chinese at Williams College. Her work has appeared at ACM FAccT, NeurIPS, and AIES, and in journals including Nature Machine Intelligence, Lancet Planetary Health, and Science Robotics. She was also part of a winning team of the EU AI Act Grand Challenge. Before returning to AI governance research, she was a full-stack software engineer at an enterprise data management software company in Boston.
