Zoi Roupakia is the Founder of Noetic AI, and a trained AI scientist and policy expert with a 20 years’  multidisciplinary professional history spanning machine learning, innovation policy, and AI governance. She combines technical depth and policy insight to explore how intelligent systems are reshaping innovation, governance, and decision-making. Her work focuses on advancing both AI for policy and policy for AI — helping governments and institutions design responsible, inclusive, and evidence-based approaches to emerging technologies.

Zoi is a Policy Affiliate at Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy (Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge), supporting global innovation policy initiatives through her expertise in AI and industrial digital technologies. She is also a member of the AI Policy Group at the Center for AI and Digital Policy in Washington, contributing to international AI policy development and advocacy.

Her international policy work includes collaborations with organisations such as the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). She has participated as an invited AI expert in UNECE's Team of Specialists on Innovation and contributed to the UN-ECE Transformative Innovation Network (ETIN) Action Forum. She is the lead author of a forthcoming brief on AI governance in Southeast Asia with UNIDO, and of the Manifesto for Global Industrial Safety as part of a UNIDO initiative with Lloyd's Register Foundation and GMIS.

Before founding Noetic AI, Zoi served as Policy and AI Research Lead at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing, where she led evidence-based policy research on university commercialisation and responsible AI, with findings informing UK government agencies.

Earlier in her career, she conducted speech and machine learning research at Google — where she co-invented a patented voice-conversion technology — and at the University of Cambridge Engineering Department.

Zoi's contributions to addressing gender disparities in technology were recognised with the 2023 InterAct Fellowship and the IfM Award for Excellence in Academic Citizenship. She has been named a Future Leader 2025 by the Foundation for Science and Technology and is a member of the Policy Group of the Women in Manufacturing Initiative.