Yu-Hsuan Chao

Thesis title: How Police-AI Interactions Affect Police Practices – A Case Study of AI-Assisted Police Report Generation Tools

Background

Yu-Hsuan is a PhD student at Edinburgh Law School. His research focuses on AI in policing, with an emphasis on how AI deployment and police-AI interactions reshape everyday police practices.

Qualifications

Master of Law(LLM) in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, The University of Edinburgh (2022)

Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Investigation, Central Police University, Taiwan (2017)

 

Research summary

Police studies, criminology, criminal law

Project activity

Research Assistant - (Projects Grant by the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan)

  • Research on Building Responsible Artificial Intelligence Innovation in the Field of Criminal Investigation and Prevention (2024-2026)

    • led by Associate Professor Yao-Ming Liu
  • The Protection of Victims’ Rights in Criminal Procedure: Focusing on the Responsibilities of the Police (2023-2024)
    • led by Professor Huei-Ting Huang

Participant

  • Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2026
    • Presenting: “AI and the Re-Making of Justice: Predictive Policing as a Case Study in Power, Discretion, and Police Culture
  • Scottish International Policing Conference 2026
    • Poster: “Beyond Adoption: Adaptation, Appropriation, and Resistance to New Technologies in Policing”

 

 

  • Critical Criminology Past, Present, and Future
    • Contemporary Challenges: The Global Crime Justice and Security Journal Vol.3 pp.28-44 (2022)
  • An introduction of Super-database in the UK
    • Law Enforcement Review Vol.17 No. 1 pp.25-40 (2021)