Jacqueline Rowe
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
I am a PhD Student in the UKRI-funded CDT in Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing at the University of Edinburgh (2024-2028), supervised by Alexandra Birch and Shannon Vallor. With a background in Linguistics, Human Rights Law and Computer Science, I’m interested in how to design NLP tools to be safer, fairer and more equitable for speakers of minority languages.
Current research interests include multilingual bias detection in LLMs, hate speech detection for low-resource languages, low-resource machine translation and linguistic equity in NLP research and technologies
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| Oct 14, 2026 | How can we make it easier to identify human rights risks associated with technology projects, by both people without technical expertise and those without human rights expertise? I was involved in the early design of Tech Harms Check, a tool released today which supports project managers donors and practitioners to begin human rights due diligence processes for their projects and proposals involving technology. Congrats to the team and great to see this important tool out there making human rights due diligence more accessible for all! |
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| Oct 08, 2026 | This week, I’m back in Edinburgh to continue my PhD after six months as a Student Researcher at Google DeepMind. During my time there, I collaborated with several teams tackling privacy, personalisation, and memory challenges in LLMs and agents. I also partnered with Google’s Applied Privacy Research Team to build an automated pipeline for detecting emerging AI harms at scale. Check out our new preprint on this work: Move Fast and Mend Things: Keeping Up With Evolving AI Harms Using Social Media Commentary. |
| Apr 20, 2026 | I started today as a Student Researcher in Google DeepMind’s Ethics and Foresight Team, focusing on privacy and personalisation in agent LLMs 🤖 I’ll be here for six months, and returning to my PhD in Edinburgh in October. |