Yahong Li, JSD and JSM (Stanford), is an Associate Professor and Director for LLM Program in Technology and Intellectual Property Law at the Department of Law of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She specializes in IP law with a focus on cross-disciplinary study of IP, culture and technological innovation. She is an author/editor of, inter alia, Patents and Innovation in Mainland China and Hong Kong: Two Systems in One Country Compared (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Copyright, Internet and the Balance of Rights (HKU Press, 2016), Imitation to Innovation in China: the Role of Patents in Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries (Edward Elgar, 2010). She published widely in top-tier peer-reviewed journals including Cardozo AELJ, IIC, LIT, QMJIP, UPenn JIL and AIPJ. She was twice awarded the Faculty Research Output Prizes. She is a recipient of the competitive Cambridge-HKU and Melbourne-HKU Fellowships, and the sponsored Visitorship of Max Planck Institute of Innovation and Competition, Harvard Law School, Academia Sinica, and ARCIALA of SMU, among others. She has supervised more than 10 PhD students and was nominated for an Outstanding Supervisor award. She is a member of International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), a Council Member of China IP Law Association, and Honorary Advisor of Hong Kong Institute of Patent Attorneys. She is also an Honorary Professor at Jinan University, a member of Expert Committee of Peking University Great Bay Area IP Institute, an Expert Advisor of National Copyright Trading Base, and a Scientific Member of Canadian Institute for International Law Expertise.