Yifan Mao is a research fellow at the United Nations University Institute in Macau who focused on the intersection of AI, education, and a sustainable future.
Yifan’s work focuses on AI and education in relation to SDG 4, with particular attention to equity, technological transformation, employment, and ethics. His broader interests include history of comparative education, vocational education and training, institutional change, and academic mobility. With a commitment to critical inquiry, he engages with educational contexts where tensions emerge between policy and practice, as well as between institutions and individuals.