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Zara Siddique

Zara Siddique

(she/her)

Research student

Overview

I am a PhD candidate in the School of Computer Science and Informatics, funded by the UKRI’s AIMLAC CDT. My thesis explores how we can conceptualise and quantify harms caused by large language models (LLMs) and how debiasing methods affect intersecting forms of discrimination, e.g. race and gender.

My main research interests lie in the fields of bias in LLMs and AI ethics, as well as political and media bias. I am also a member of the Cardiff NLP research group.

Publication

2025

  • Siddique, Z., Turner, L. and Espinosa-Anke, L. 2025. Dialz: A Python toolkit for steering vectors. Presented at: The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria, 27 July - 1 August 2025Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), Vol. 3. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 363-375.

2024

Conferences

  • Siddique, Z., Turner, L. and Espinosa-Anke, L. 2025. Dialz: A Python toolkit for steering vectors. Presented at: The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Vienna, Austria, 27 July - 1 August 2025Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 3: System Demonstrations), Vol. 3. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 363-375.
  • Siddique, Z., Turner, L. and Espinosa-Anke, L. 2024. Who is better at math, Jenny or Jingzhen? Uncovering Stereotypes in Large Language Models. Presented at: The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Miami, FL, USA, 12-16 November 2024Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. Association for Computational Linguistics pp. 18601-18619., (10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.1035)

Supervisors

Liam Turner

Liam Turner

Senior Lecturer

Luis Espinosa-Anke

Luis Espinosa-Anke

Senior Lecturer

Contact Details

Email SiddiqueZS2@cardiff.ac.uk

Campuses Abacws, Room 4.01, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG

Research themes

Specialisms

  • AI Ethics
  • Natural language processing