Zoya Yasmine

Zoya is a DPhil student in the Faculty of Law and a recipient of an MTST scholarship. Her thesis explores trade secrets vis-à-vis patent law, data protection, and whistleblowing protections in the context of medical AI development. Currently, Zoya is a Research Assistant to Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl as part of the Law Faculty’s AI and Law project as well as the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights' iManage ERC-funded project. In addition, she is an 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, privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g., synthetic data), AI narratives, and human-in-the-loop systems. She is 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. Zoya also regularly engages with industry, having worked at numerous start-ups and organisations in the healthcare and AI industry throughout her studies, including GSK.ai, the General Medical Council, MeditSimple, and BenevolentAI. 

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