Ling Cheung Hughes

Ling is an expert in intellectual property, with over 13 years of experience in patent portfolio building and licensing. She currently serves as a strategic advisor to several fast-growing startups with cutting-edge artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and blockchain technologies. Prior to practicing law, Ling was a postdoctoral researcher at MIT CSAIL, where she co-developed an attribute-based encryption scheme for fine-grained access control in databases, multicast communications, and other data sharing applications. Her paper on the encryption scheme has been cited over 1,000 times.