Justin (PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He works at the intersections of ethics, political philosophy, and traditional Chinese philosophy, with particular interests in Chinese and Western views of virtue, knowledge, and governance. Recent books include the The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy (Oxford, 2024) and Neo-Confucianism (with Stephen C. Angle, Polity, 2017). With Eric L. Hutton, he is a series editor of Oxford Chinese Thought

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Amit is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2018. His research focuses on classical South Asian and contemporary analytic philosophies of perception and consciousness. He also has research interests in cross-cultural ethics and moral psychology.

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Rachel (PhD, St Andrews/Oslo) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, and Principal Investigator of the project Meaning and Communication in the Information Age, which looks at how the nature of linguistic meaning and communication have changed because of advances in information technology, AI, and virtual reality. She studies the nature of online speech and manipulation, fake news, and conceptual engineering. She is co-editor of the forthcoming volume Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press).

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Boris is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong.  He works primarily in ethics, law, and policy of artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in medical applications. He also works in Bayesian statistics and epistemology. Formerly, he was an Assistant Professor at INSEAD, both in France and Singapore, and a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He received a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, an MS in Statistics and a PhD in Philosophy, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Brian (DPhil in Politics, Oxford) is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, specialising in political and moral philosophy. His research examines the nature of political responsibilities of citizens under non-democratic contexts, how state and individual actors respond to historical and structural injustices, and the intersection of philosophy and public policy. 

Daniel is Professor, Chair of Political Theory with the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He served as Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University (Qingdao) from 2017 to 2022.   His books include The Dean of Shandong (2023),  Just Hierarchy (co-authored with Wang Pei, 2020), The China Model (2015), The Spirit of Cities (co-authored with Avner de-Shalit, 2012), China’s New Confucianism (2008), Beyond Liberal Democracy (2007), and East Meets West (2000), all published by Princeton University Press.   He is also the author of Communitarianism and Its Critics (Oxford University Press, 1993).  He is founding editor of the Princeton-China series (Princeton University Press) which translates and publishes original and influential academic works from China. His works have been translated in 23 languages. He has been interviewed in English, Chinese, and French. In 2018, he was awarded the Huilin Prize and was honored as a “Cultural Leader” by the World Economic Forum.

Herman is Director of the AI & Humanity Lab, Steering Committee Member of the Musketeers Institute for Data Science, and Chair Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of California Berkeley, and has held positions at Vassar College, the University of Oxford, the University of Oslo, and the University of St Andrews. He is author of 11 books, including Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2021), a frequent speaker and commentator at academic and public events in AI and Philosophy, and co-editor of the forthcoming collection Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press). His research focuses on the philosophy of AI, conceptual engineering, the conceptual foundations of politica discourse, and externalism in the philosophy of mind and language.

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Isaac (Dr. phil., FU Berlin) is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at HKU. He specializes in the moral and political philosophy of Kant and Rawls. His research interests include international cooperation, the rise of Enlightenment and modernity, and modernization in East Asia. The conflict between premodernity and modernity is a central focus of his research.

Joe (PhD, MIT) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He specialises in philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive science, and critical thinking. He is author of An Introduction to Critical Thinking and Creativity: Think More, Think Better (Wiley, 2011), and prominent contributor to issues in critical thinking education. In addition, he teaches in the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences Applied AI programme.

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Nate  (PhD, UNC Chapel Hill) is currently a Philosophy Fellow at the Center for AI Safety, and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. He is author of the book Epistemic Instrumentalism Explained (Routledge, 2022). His work centres on epistemology, value theory, meta-ethics, and the philosophy of AI. His current research on AI includes strategies for evaluative alignment, and capabilities identification.

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Ryan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong .  His research takes a data-driven approach to understanding the law and legal systems, with a particular focus on intellectual property law and innovation policy. This approach unites traditional doctrinal analyses with empirical techniques drawn from diverse fields including machine learning, natural language processing, network analysis, and data science.

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His work has appeared in a wide variety of journals including the University of Chicago Law Review, Research Policy, Science & Public Policy, the Northwestern University Law Review, the Yale Law Journal Forum, the Michigan State Law Review, and the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society.

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Ryan holds a BA(hons) from Saint Mary’s University (Canada), an MA from National Chengchi University (Taiwan), a JD from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and a PhD from Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, He served as the editor-in-chief of the Northwestern University Law Review. Prior to joining HKU, he served on the faculties at the National University of Singapore and Dalhousie University, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago and the University of Glasgow.

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Scott (LLB PhD, Edinburgh) is Paul K C Chung Professor of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He writes and teaches in the areas of legal, social and political theory. His area of research is jurisprudence broadly defined, and his work draws on historical, philosophical and sociological insights into law and legal institutions. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent book Obligations: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2021).

Vince (PhD, Harvard; MBA, Stanford) is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Hong Kong. He researches heterodox price models - primarily extending theories from sociology and behavioral finance - and their application to financial markets. Prior to teaching at HKU, he founded and managed a global macro hedge fund and the Asia operations of a global private equity fund. He continues to serve as a director on funds and listed companies, while managing his family office and assisting local charities.

Ho Yin received his DPhil from the University of Oxford and is an Assistant Lecturer at the HKU Philosophy Department. His research interests include cultural relativism, social and global justice, and normative political economy. He is currently working on a project that seeks to defend the culturalist conception of justice by accentuating culture's scope of authority.

Zach Gudmunsen (PhD, University of Leeds) is an Assistant Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. His previous role was Lecturer at Koç University in Istanbul. His research centres on the ethical implications of non-human agency; including fields such as artificial intelligence, biological evolution, metaethics, and moral psychology. More recently, he has been developing ideas about how the digital information ecosystem frames conceptual understanding.