I'm a fourth-year PhD student at Cardiff University in the Cardiff NLP Group. My research focuses on intersectional harms in LLMs, looking specifically at how we can measure and mitigate these harms in NLP systems.

If you'd like to know more about me, my CV is linked above.

Publications

• Shifting Perspectives: Steering Vector Ensembles for Robust Bias Mitigation in LLMs

  Zara Siddique,, Irtaza Khalid, Liam D. Turner, Luis Espinosa-Anke.

• Who is better at math, Jenny or Jingzhen? Uncovering Stereotypes in Large Language Models

  Zara Siddique, Liam D. Turner, Luis Espinosa-Anke (EMNLP 2024).

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• Automatic Extraction of Metaphoric Analogies from Literary Texts: Task Formulation, Dataset Construction, and Evaluation

  Joanne Boisson, Zara Siddique, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Dimosthenis Antypas, Luis Espinosa Anke, Jose Camacho-Collados (COLING 2025).

• How Are Metaphors Processed by Language Models? The Case of Analogies

  Joanne Boisson, Asahi Ushio, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Kiamehr Rezaee, Dimosthenis Antypas, Zara Siddique, Nina White, Jose Camacho-Collados (CoNLL 2024).

Other Stuff

I also used to run the book club Lez Read, which is currently on hiatus. I made a silly little website for it here, which I'm quite proud of.