Zoya Yasmine

Zoya is a DPhil student in the Faculty of Law and a recipient of an MTST scholarship. Her thesis explores the intersections between trade secrets and information disclosure across patent law, data protection, and whistleblowing protections. Currently, Zoya is also a Research Assistant for the Law Faculty’s AI and Law project and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights' iManage ERC-funded project. She is also 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 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. Zoya also regularly engages with industry, having worked at numerous start-ups and organisations in the healthcare and AI industry, including GSK, 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 also holds an MPhil in the Ethics of AI, Data, and Algorithms from the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded a distinction (Bateman Scholar).