Bahrad Sokhansanj

Bahrad Sokhansanj (X – LinkedIn) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Law & AI. He focuses on U.S. law and policy for AI governance, with an emphasis on AI safety, biosecurity, and liability issues in AI regulation. Previously, Bahrad practiced as an intellectual property litigator and clerked for Chief Judge Sharon Prost on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Before his legal career, Bahrad was a postdoctoral research fellow working in computational genomics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Drexel University. He earned a JD from Columbia Law School, a PhD from the University of California, Davis, and an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from the University of Saskatchewan.