Hi, I'm Meryem, a Product Designer & AI Researcher.

With graduate training from Carnegie Mellon University and about 3 years of experience, I leverage research and strategic design to make complex, high stakes systems feel simple.

Currently

Product Design @ PLUS · AI Research @ CMU

Product Design @ PLUS

AI Research @CMU

Product Design, User Research,

Fixing a broken goal setting system for fast live tutoring sessions

Innovation, Product Strategy, Service Design

Turning Research into a service opportunity for a B2B Waste to Energy Startup

Product design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Service Design, Context Engineering

Turning complex service data into clarity for people and AI agents(In-Progress)

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Product Design, User Research

Fixing a broken goal setting system for fast live tutoring sessions

Innovation, Product Strategy, Service Design

Turning Research into a service opportunity for a B2B Waste to Energy Startup

Product design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Service Design, Context Engineering

Turning complex service data into clarity for people and AI agents (In-Progress)

Product design, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Service Design, Context Engineering

Turning complex service data into clarity for people and AI agents (In-Progress)

AVAILABLE FOR COLLABORATION

meryemm@andrew.cmu.edu

As an AI researcher, I investigate human-AI interaction, responsible deployment, evaluation & governance.

My focus areas include AI Evaluation, Responsible AI Labor, Trust & Safety, and Human-Centered AI.

Read my most recent publication.

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Towards Apples to Apples for AI Evaluations: From Real-World Use Cases to Evaluation Scenarios

Completed in collaboration with NIST, this research focused on how to make AI evaluations more comparable and grounded in real-world use, resulting in a repeatable process for generating testable evaluation scenarios from financial industry use cases

Personal Impact: Participant Recruitment, Semi-Structured Interviews, Qualitative Coding, Thematic Analysis

Open to New Opportunities!