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Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz and Visiting Scholar at Stanford University Gerui Wang is a Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Her research interests span arts, public policy, environment, and technologies. Gerui has given talks at international venues on the benefits and risks of emerging technologies such as AI and humanoid robots. She published articles on topics including international relations, clean energy and electric automobiles, AI and urban economy, AI’s applications in the cultural industry, among others. Gerui is a member of the Alan Turing Institute’s AI & Art research group, fostering interdisciplinary research initiatives. Gerui aspires to tell a global history of innovation, which recognizes contribution to development in culture and technology from diverse countries and regions. Her courses on Asian art covering Neolithic materials to modern and contemporary periods explore global connections and transformations of art forms and meanings through trade networks and migration. She has previously worked for a decade at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, collaborating with the research, curatorial, as well as development teams which fostered a transformational $12 million gift of Chinese calligraphy to the Museum, the largest in the Museum’s history. Gerui holds a Ph.D. in history of art from the University of Michigan.