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Kevin Liao is a joint J.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Law School and MIT in the Department of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. 

At MIT, he is a member of the Internet Policy Research Initiative and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is broadly interested in the interplay between law, technology, and society. Specifically, his research focuses on legal-technical co-design, which asks how legal theory and technical design can help each other “get things right” towards various goals, such as safety, security, and privacy. He is also a summer associate at Fish & Richardson, focusing on intellectual property litigation.