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About

I am a JD student at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, a PhD student in Computer Science at Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering, and a Law & Science Fellow in the JD-PhD program.

Research Areas

My research lies in the intersection of law and computer science. My interest spans a number of areas, including the study of applying advancement in computer science to policy problems, and in devising effective regulations for the safe deployment of new technologies.

In particular, I am interested in information security, privacy, safety and sustainability of AI, and with focus on the role of Intellectual Property law in safeguarding inventions and respecting the data rights during the course of AI model training.

Works

The Settlement Privacy-Transparency Matrix: Moving Beyond the Dichotomous Mindset in the Settlement Debate

Alyson Carrel, Peter K. Chan

Published Journal of Dispute Resolution (Iss. 2,Vol. 2025)

Murmurs of the Silenced: Secure Reporting of Misconduct Settlements

Peter K. Chan, Alyson Carrel, Mayank Varia, Xiao Wang

Published CSLAW ‘25: Proceedings of the Symposium on Computer Science and Law (Munich, Bavaria, Germany, March 2025)

• Inaugural Best Paper Award
• conference slides

Giving Voice to the Silenced: Secure Reporting of Sexual Misconduct NDAs

Peter K. Chan, Alyson Carrel, Mayank Varia, Xiao Wang

Invited short presentation for CSLAW ‘24: Symposium on Computer Science and Law (Boston, MA, USA, March 2024)

Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: A User-View on the Criticality of the Submarine Cable Network

Shucheng Liu, Zachary S. Bischof, Ishaan Madan, Peter K. Chan, Fabián E. Bustamante

Published IMC ‘20: Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (Pittsburgh, PA, USA, online, October 2020)

Background

I received a Master of Science in Law in 2019, from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and a Master of Science in Computer Science in 2024, from Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering.

I have legal internship experience at the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender, judicial externship experience at the Cook County Chancery Court, served as legal research assistant for Prof. Alyson Carrel, and for Prof. Paul Gowder for his book The Networked Leviathan, worked as a summer associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, and as an IP legal intern in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Nixon Peabody LLP.

I was Production Editor for the Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property at Northwestern Law.

Prior to graduate study, I was an entrepreneur and a software engineer. I interned at a tech startup and later founded a successful travel software company.