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Jeff Chen advises Chinese technology and industrial investors on AI governance, cybersecurity and critical information infrastructure (CII) protection, and EU compliance for connected devices, from the EU Data Act to UN R155/R156.
Mr. Chen practices at Jingye Law Firm in Shanghai and holds a doctoral degree in law from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He previously practiced data compliance at an international top-tier law firm for many years. He is one of the few legal professionals who combine deep legal scholarship with hands-on technical understanding, and has delivered legal-tech innovations including compliance knowledge bases, intelligent workflows and compliance skills for clients.
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He advises on compliance assessment and architecture design for data collection, processing and commercial use in emerging models, including LLM training corpus compliance, autonomous driving data and algorithms, and AI-assisted medical imaging analysis.
As a certified expert in AI corpus review for the Shenzhen municipal data authority, he has provided legal guidance on data ownership confirmation, personal information cleansing and sensitive data desensitization for multiple large model training projects. He has also advised on data rights disputes and contract defense design in big data procurement.
He assists multinational companies and large state-owned enterprises in responding to government cybersecurity inspections, conducting comprehensive risk identification and vulnerability screening, and designing cross-border data transfer solutions.
His CII work includes compliance system building and training for a media industry operator, supporting an international automotive company through a government-led cybersecurity inspection, and translating Cybersecurity Law obligations into actionable items for research, sales and operations teams at an international communications solutions provider.
He builds custom LLM-powered compliance knowledge bases and automated workflows for in-house legal departments, and has won cases involving online copyright infringement, game platform name infringement, and unfair competition disputes arising from data scraping.
He led a team that won the Legal Tech Innovation Award at the 2018 Global Legal Tech Hackathon (Shanghai), and translates complex GDPR and China Data Security Law obligations into visual logic engines for legal and product teams. He has also designed data governance frameworks for a smartphone manufacturer's user experience program, an international sportswear brand's Industry 4.0 initiative, and China-localized privacy policies and IoT data classification rules for a global restaurant equipment services company.
Education: Doctor of Laws, Koguan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Credentials: PRC lawyer license; CISP (China Information Security Testing and Evaluation Center); IAPP CIPM; DEKRA CAIGP (AI governance expert). Member of the Shanghai Bar Association's Informatization Working Committee, Legal Technology Committee, and Digital Technology and AI Committee; expert in the CSA Greater China privacy and personal information protection legal working group.
Recognized by the 2025 Golden Line Legal Tech and AI Application Award, LexisNexis ELITE Individual Award 2025, LEGALBAND China Top Lawyers (TMT / High-tech and AI, 2024-2026), Chambers (TMT: Data Protection and Privacy, 2025-2026) and The Legal 500 PRC Data Protection (Next Generation Partner, 2025-2026).
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