Meriem Mehri

Advisory Board Member

Meriem is a researcher, scientist, entrepreneur, and builder working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, governance, and human-centered systems. Her work is rooted in an essential question: how do smart systems alter the way humans decide, coordinate, and remain accountable to one another, and how do we ensure those systems are designed to serve rather than supplant human agency?

She's currently pursuing a PhD in engineering management and computational social sciences at Polytechnique Montréal, where her research weaves together agent-based modeling, human-computer interaction, AI governance, and innovation ecosystems. Her academic formation spans management analytics, data and computer science, and artificial intelligence, cultivated across University College London, McGill University, and HEC Montréal. That breadth is not incidental. It is what allows her to work at the seams between disciplines, translating computational rigor into policy-relevant insight and organizational clarity.

Meriem is equally committed to the human side of knowledge-building. She teaches, mentors, and advocates across courses in data analysis, interaction design, and risk measurement, and plays an active leadership role AI ethics, alignment, and safety & governance efforts spanning Canada and the international stage. She approaches these spaces not as obligations but as extensions of her core practice, places where the next generation of thinkers encounters ideas that shape how they build.

Underlying everything is a conviction she returns to with consistency: that well-designed intelligent systems do not replace human judgment, they sharpen it. Meriem works to make that vision concrete, forging frameworks that move between research and implementation, and toward a future where technology and human flourishing progress together.