Research Fellows

Yuan Hao
Co-Director, Berkeley Asia IP and Competition Law Center and Senior Fellow

Dr. Yuan Hao is a senior fellow / co-director of the newly established Berkeley Asia IP and Competition Law Center (BAIC) at BCLT. Yuan’s research interests are focused on two areas: (1) IP’s specific role in facilitating human creativity in an AI-powered age; and (2) IP’s specific role in the growth of private ordering and innovation eco-system in the shadow of an authoritarian government. For the former interest, Yuan is co-teaching a brand-new course titled IP and Human Creativity in an “AI Age” starting in the autumn of 2023, and her very recent article of The Rise of Centaur Inventors has been published in the Journal of Patent and Trademark Office Society (Vol. 104, Jan. 2024). In 2024-2025, Yuan is also hosting a global talk series on generative AI and human creativity. Regarding the latter interest, Yuan’s research is currently focused on the evolving landscape of standard essential patent (SEP) licensing and litigation, as well as the curious interplay of patent and antitrust in China.

Before Yuan joined Berkeley, she taught patent law and anti-monopoly law in the School of Law at Tsinghua University. As an influential academic, Yuan advised key IP and anti-monopoly legislation projects in China. She also participated in a dozen litigation, administrative investigation, and arbitration cases, including a major SEP antitrust investigation proceeding, as a panel member or expert witness. In 2018, Yuan was listed as an arbitrator in the International Arbitration Center in Tokyo (IACT), which aims to specialize in SEP-related arbitrations.  

Yuan received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School (2011), Ph.D. in Nano-electronics from Penn State University (2006), and B.S. in Physics from Peking University (1999). 

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Copyright Law Fellow

Kathryn Hashimoto received her BA in English from UC Berkeley and her JD from the University of San Francisco School of Law. With a background in book publishing, Kathryn specializes in copyright law. Recent articles with Professor Pamela Samuelson include The Enigma of Digitized Property: A Tribute to John Perry Barlow, Duke Tech. L.J (forthcoming 2019), and Scholarly Concerns About a Proposed Copyright Small Claims Tribunal, 33 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 689 (2018), in addition to forthcoming book chapters on fair use in international copyright contexts and copyright in standards. Kathryn has also worked with Professor Samuelson and the Samuelson Clinic on amicus curiae briefs submitted to the US Supreme Court and the Second and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Elena Fabian

Elena Fabian
Student Research Fellow
 
Elena Fabian is in her second year at Berkeley Law.  Prior to law school, she received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Northwestern University.  She is now a co-president of Berkeley’s Intellectual Property Law Society, and she spent her 1L summer at Desmarais LLP.

Maddison Konway

Maddison Konway
Student Research Fellow
 
Maddison Konway began attending Berkeley Law in August 2024, where she is focusing on intellectual property and administrative law. Prior to law school, she graduated with her Bachelor of Engineering and Management with a specialization in Materials Science from McMaster University in Canada. Maddison has held several engineering positions in diverse industries, including resource extraction, aerospace, and energy. She has also worked in academia doing environmental remediation and alloy development for satellite applications. Maddison spent her 1L summer at Haynes and Boone working on patent prosecution, patent litigation, and PTAB proceedings.
 

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Victor Jiawei Zhang
Student Research Fellow

Victor Jiawei Zhang is a Lloyd M. Robbins Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) Fellow at UC Berkeley Law School. Jiawei’s research interests include information technology law, competition law, AI governance, and comparative policy study of various jurisdictions. Jiawei’s writings have been recognized by leading U.S. law journals, including Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Stanford Law & Policy Review Online, North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, and The Regulatory Review In Depth. Concurrently, Jiawei is also a PhD candidate at the Technical University of Munich School of Social Sciences and Technology. He holds an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford with a full scholarship and an LL.M. from U.C. Berkeley Law School.

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Sasmita Mishra
Student Research Fellow

Sasmita Mishra is a 2025 LL.M. graduate from Berkeley Law, where she earned the Law & Technology Certificate. Before Berkeley, she spent eight years in India working across both law firm and in-house roles, including six years as Senior Legal Manager at a leading health technology company spanning e-pharmacy, telemedicine, and diagnostic services. In that role, she focused on regulatory strategy, data protection, digital health compliance, and corporate transactions, supporting the company through major milestones, including M&A, IPO preparation, and cross-border legal coordination. At Berkeley, Sasmita focused on AI, technology law, and policy, taking courses like Law and Governance of AI, Information Privacy Law, and Computer Programming for Lawyers. She served as a Fall Fellow with the Berkeley AI Safety Student Initiative, co-organizing an interdisciplinary event on AI safety. Her current interests lie at the intersection of AI governance, privacy, and the legal frameworks shaping generative technologies, with a focus on how contract-based and industry-led approaches are influencing global AI regulation