Dr. Elena Vasquez

Dr. Elena Vasquez holds a JD from Columbia Law School and a PhD in Technology Policy from Georgetown. She spent the first decade of her career as a technology attorney at Latham & Watkins, where she advised clients including Google, JPMorgan, and three major healthcare systems on data privacy, IP, and AI liability. She was lead counsel on two landmark AI copyright cases and has testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on AI regulation.

Elena left private practice to focus on applied AI compliance research and education. At Top AI Courses, she is responsible for auditing the legal and ethics modules within certification programs — a critical and often overlooked dimension of AI education quality. She is particularly focused on the growing gap between what AI certifications teach about compliance and what practitioners actually face in regulated industries like healthcare, finance, and law.