Charlin Lu is Senior Director of Intellectual Property & Product Legal at Rubrik. In addition to leading the IP and Product Legal teams at Rubrik, Charlin spearheads Rubrik's efforts to mitigate risks around AI while enabling innovation with velocity. Prior to joining Rubrik, Charlin was Director of IP Legal at Salesforce, where she advised the AI research team on a variety of issues ranging from patents to data collection and research collaboration. Charlin's interest in and experience with AI began as a computer science major at Yale University. After graduating from Stanford Law School, she began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Ronald M. Whyte in the Northern District of California and discovered her interest in patent law. A second clerkship with Chief Judge Randall R. Rader at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit cemented her interest in IP, and post-clerkship, Charlin joined Covington & Burling, where she litigated complex, high-stakes IP cases for a number of years before transitioning to an in-house role.