Russell Yang is interested in AI governance and private-public partnerships.

He is a member of the American Statistical Association Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights, and previously, the Yale Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility, where he made proxy voting recommendations for endowment stocks.

Russell received a BS, magna cum laude, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale, obtaining the Edward O. Lanphier Prize for ranking first in the Electrical Engineering Department.