Xinyu XIE
Xinyu Xie is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong and a student fellow at the Law and Technology Centre. Prior to her PhD studies, she obtained her Master’s degree in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law from Xiamen University and her Bachelor’s degree in Law with a minor in Industrial Design from South China University of Technology. Combining doctrinal legal analysis with computational linguistics and empirical methods, she explores the governance, design, and social implications of emerging AI systems. Her current research examines the operationalization of AI value principles in regulatory practice, regulatory approaches to AI companion technologies, and the normative goals of value alignment in human-AI interaction.
Publications
The Alignment Target Problem: Divergent Moral Judgments of Humans, AI Systems, and Their Designers, In Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’26) https://doi.org/10.1145/3805689.3812297