Douglas Kiang is an award-winning AI educator and Computer Science teacher at Menlo School in Silicon Valley. With over 30 years of teaching experience, he has taught at independent schools at all grade levels, and he is an advocate for ethical, human-centered AI education.
He served on the Development Committee for the AP Computer Science Principles course.
He wrote a computer science curriculum focusing on maker education. He is an Apple Distinguished Educator and a Microsoft Global Minecraft Mentor.
Douglas has keynoted and presented day-long workshops at schools all over the world. As a speaker and workshop leader, he helps educators nationwide to integrate AI meaningfully while fostering student agency, empathy, and collaboration.
He was a Research Fellow at the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and is a 2015 recipient of the NCWIT Educator Award, for support and encouragement of young women’s interest in computing and information technology. He was also a CS50 Teaching Fellow at Harvard University in the Computer Science department.
In November 2017 Douglas was nominated by the state of Hawaii for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest honor bestowed by the United States government for K-12 teaching.
Douglas recently gave the opening day keynote at University School on AI in the classroom.
AI in Education, University School, 8/13/25
Douglas recently did a TEDx Talk on teaching and fostering a sense of community in schools.
Spaces Between: Teaching, Learning, and Community