Zoi is an AI/machine learning and policy expert committed to bridging AI, policy and innovation. As the UCI Policy and AI Research Lead at the University of Cambridge's Policy Evidence Unit for University Commercialisation and Innovation (UCI), she leads a dual research programme. One arm of her work programme is dedicated to policy research, where she addresses key challenges in university research commercialisation, spinouts, scale-up, and gender disparities. Findings from this research programme have directly informed evidence presented to DSIT. The other programme delves into responsible AI for policy.

In 2021, Zoi was appointed as a member of the Knowledge Exchange Framework metrics expert group by Research England. In 2023, she was awarded an InterAct ECR Fellowship to study AI's social and economic impact on manufacturing. Her work in gender disparities was recently recognised by receiving the IfM 2023 Post-Doctoral Award for Excellence in Academic Citizenship.

Zoi has recently been appointed as a Policy Affiliate at the Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy (CIIP) group at the University of Cambridge, based on her previous and existing collaborations in industrial innovation policy projects for stakeholders such as the United Nations Development Organisation (UNIDO), Lloyd's Register Foundation (LRF), the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (GMIS), and the UK government. Recent work in this role has included co-authoring the Manifesto for Global Industrial Safety, developed by a Global Industrial Safety Coalition led by UNIDO, LRF, CIIP, and GMIS, marking a significant development in global industrial safety.

Before joining UCI, Zoi's diverse experience included freelance machine learning and technology consulting, data science, enterprise digital transformation, machine learning engineering for start-ups, and speech synthesis at Google. She has post-graduate research experience in large-vocabulary speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis at the University of Cambridge and is a Google patent co-inventor.

Beyond her technical expertise, Zoi is a passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion and is actively involved in initiatives like the Women in Manufacturing Initiative.