Martin Ma is the Founder and CEO of Happy Universe. He helped many startups and multinational companies in their digital/AI transformation and globalization. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tsinghua University and a PhD in Computer Science from Yale University. He is also a Yale Graduate School Alumni Association Board member for 2024-2027.

Alex Moore is a senior at Yale, where he majors in mathematics and computer science. At Yale, Alex splits his time between technical and humanistic interests. On the technical side, Alex has done data science research on battery storage for solar energy, mechanical design for NASA’s ultralight Moon infrastructure, and machine learning for physics simulation in the defense industry. Beyond his technical pursuits, Alex ran Yale’s only nonpartisan student voter outreach group during the 2024 election cycle, led the Grace Hopper College Council, and recently founded the Yale chapter of Students for Abundance, a nonpartisan group devoted to education and advocacy on the Abundance Agenda. Alex is also Publisher at The New Journal , an award-winning Yale student journalistic magazine. Alex wrote the cover story for the most recent issue of The New Journal , titled “Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI,” a narrative study of AI culture on Yale’s campus. For this work, he interviewed nearly forty students, professors, and administrators to develop a comprehensive view of AI’s current impact on the Yale education.

Sarah Senk is a professor in the Department of English at California Polytechnic State University and a co-host of “My Robot Teacher” (with Dr. Taiyo Inoue, a professor of Mathematics), a podcast about AI and higher education that features conversations with researchers, educators, and industry experts on how AI is impacting teaching and learning (available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify).
For the past decade, Dr. Senk has taught courses in written and oral communication, critical thinking, modern and contemporary literature, and cultural memory studies on the Cal Poly Maritime Academy campus.
Her research interests include trauma and cultural memory in global English literature, speculative fiction and film, “slow disaster,” and commemoration in the digital age.
Dr. Senk graduated from Yale College in 2003 in Literature. After completing a Master of Studies in English from the University of Oxford, she earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at Cornell University in 2011, where she specialized in twentieth-century and contemporary global Anglophone literature and trauma/memory studies.

Scott J. Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and professor of philosophy at Yale Law School. His scholarship spans the philosophy of law, international and criminal law, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Shapiro is the author of "Legality" (2011); "The Internationalists" (2017, with Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Oona Hathaway ’97); and "Fancy Bear Goes Phishing" (2023). He also co-edited "The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law" (2002, with Jules Coleman). Shapiro holds a B.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He serves as co-editor of "Legal Theory" and the "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy," and his commentary has appeared in outlets such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Foreign Affairs. Shapiro founded the Yale Documentary Project, which provides legal counsel to independent filmmakers, and co-founded the Yale Legal AI Lab, focused on the automation of legal reasoning. From 2024 to 2025, he was Special Assistant for AI Ethics to the Chief AI Officer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Kyle Kegang Wang has been a technology entrepreneur and investor over 20 years and a mentor to startup founders across multiple industries. He founded Global Energy System Exchange, LLC in 2005, a strategic consultancy in clean technology space. Kyle has served as CEOs in multiple early-stage companies where he built the executive team, syndicated capital, scaled up operations and secured tier-one global customers.
During the 18 years prior to his entrepreneurial career, Kyle held corporate roles as a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft; Vice President at RR Donnelley and Analyst at Russell Reynolds Associates. Kyle has served on over a dozen corporate and non-profit boards globally. He received an MBA from the University of Chicago in 1993 and BA from Yale in 1985.