Zoya Yasmine

Zoya is a DPhil student in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her thesis explores the implications of conflicts between UK data protection and intellectual property for mitigating biases in medical machine learning models. Currently, Zoya is the Research Assistant for the Faculty’s AI and Law project, Editor for the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, and co-convenor of the Intellectual Property Discussion Group.

Her research interests include the secondary use of health data, whistleblowers and NDAs, privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g. synthetic data), AI narratives, and human-in-the-loop systems. She is also a Director at We and AI (a critical AI literary non-profit organisation), where she helps run the internationally recognised Better Images of AI library.

Previously, Zoya completed an LLB at LSE, where she received first-class honours and a Dean’s List prize, and an MPhil in the Ethics of AI, Data, and Algorithms at the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded a distinction (Bateman Scholar).