AI Meriem

AI Engineer & Researcher

Meriem
Lmoubariki.

I build AI that works, in the lab, in the product, and for the people who need it.

Currently: Tech Lead at U-InvestorsResearch Assistant at AUITeaching Assistant at AUI
Based in: Morocco & North America

99.98%01search space narrowed from 51,837 compounds to 8 candidates 94%02accuracy on a 50-question validation bank, 1,183 course-content chunks indexed 35%03faster decision-making through AI and automation 30%04faster data retrieval on a city-planning platform 79.9%05lower forecast error versus a naive baseline 606campus roles held while completing my degree

About

Engineer, researcher, founder.

First in my family to graduate college. First woman in my family to work.

From El Jadida, a small town on Morocco's Atlantic coast, to building AI systems that ship to production: a cancer drug discovery pipeline screening 300K+ compounds, a RAG assistant for engineering students, and an AI deal flow engine for a venture capital fund.

I was the first AUI student on the bilateral exchange to the University of the Fraser Valley, and I have researched in Bangkok, built in Lisbon, and presented in Vancouver.

I work on climate, energy access, women's health, and sustainable agriculture. Not side interests. The context my technical work serves.

Hometown: El Jadida, Morocco
University: Al Akhawayn University, Class of Dec 2026
Focus: Applied AI · AI & Big Data Analytics
Honors: 60% Merit Scholarship, Dean's List ×2
Exchange: Bilateral exchange, University of the Fraser Valley, Canada
Languages: Arabic, French (C1), English (IELTS 7)

Skills

One builder. Four disciplines.

I build

I train

FAISS
Gensim

I simulate

RDKit
GROMACS
DeepChem
AutoDock Vina

I ship

Power BI
Office.js

Projects

Things I've built, with the numbers behind them.

Breast Cancer Research, KMUTT Bangkok

Paper in progress

ML Virtual Screening for Cancer Drug Discovery

Machine learning and molecular simulation to find natural breast cancer drug candidates in fungal chemical space.

of the initial search space eliminated before lab validation: 99.98%
compounds screened down to 8 candidates: 51,837
ROC-AUC, Extra Trees (Random Forest 0.898): 0.978

Breast CancerRandom ForestMolecular DockingGROMACS

Case study

Applied AI, AUI

Paper in progress

RAG Class Assistant

A production RAG assistant for Calculus II, built and deployed inside OneNote, with slide-level citations for every answer.

engineering students served: 600
accuracy, 47/50 on a validated question bank: 94%
production chunks indexed: 1,183

RAGFAISSBM25Cross-Encoder Reranking

Case study

Hackathon, UFV Community Ideation Jam

Live demo

AgriVerse

AI agricultural platform blending Indigenous ecological knowledge with machine learning for sustainable farming.

UFV Community Ideation Jam 2025: 1st
hackathon prize: $500
Valley farm expansion with UFV Agriculture: Fraser

AI for AgricultureMLSustainabilityNext.js

Case study Live demo Award story

Full-Stack Product, AUI

Live in production

delivery2dorms

Full-stack delivery platform built from financial necessity, serving real student customers.

orders fulfilled: 500+
users: 200+
average rating: 4.8/5

Next.js 14TypeScriptSupabaseTelegram API

Case study Live site GitHub (front end)

Hackathon, She Hacks × BCG X Casablanca

Propify

PropTech platform for African rental markets with built-in Moroccan tax law logic, AI maintenance classification, and tenant credibility scoring.

from idea to working product: 24–48h

PropTechAI ClassificationWomen's Hackathon

Case study BCG X video

Startup, AUI Entrepreneurship

Bliss Bites

The agrifood startup I founded and took from idea to full investor funding.

Best Startup Award, AUI Entrepreneurship Week: 2×
investor funding: 100%
Ventures Adventure, students across 4 universities: 17 of 537

EntrepreneurshipAgrifoodPitching

Case study Ventures Adventure (AUI)

Interactive Research

Live

The Observer

Interactive physics and inference simulation exploring whether scientific laws can emerge purely from observation in synthetic universes.

publicly deployed: Live

Next.jsFramer MotionSimulationCloudflare Pages

Case study Live demo GitHub

Time-Series ML

Montreal AQI Forecasting

Time-series machine learning pipeline forecasting Montreal's Air Quality Index.

error reduction over baseline: 79.9%

PythonTime SeriesForecasting

Case study GitHub

Computer Vision, GITEX

SafeLens AI

Real-time construction site safety system using computer vision.

mAP@0.5 PPE: 85%+
FPS live video: 25-30
No Hard Hat false negative: <10%

YOLOv8Computer VisionCCTV Safety

Case study

Darija NLP

Darija Word2Vec

Word embeddings trained for low-resource Moroccan Arabic (Darija) NLP.

of an 8.7M-sentence corpus trained: 3M
sentences / min throughput: ~33K
total training time: ~90 min

NLPWord2VecGensimLow-resource

Case study GitHub

More projects

darija-gap

Darija evaluation harness for GPT-5.6. OpenAI Build Week, 2025.

2025 built at OpenAI Build Week

Toxic Tweet Detection

Multi-class hate-speech model. 4 architectures compared, best SimpleRNN at 86% accuracy.

86% accuracy, SimpleRNN (best)

Meeting Intelligence System

Speaker diarization on the AMI corpus under Dr. Russell Campbell. Built for Teams.

L'Oréal Brandstorm: AR & AI Men's Grooming

AR and AI beauty and grooming tech for men, presented through a 3D website.

ClarityBot

Document summarization chatbot. Next.js, HuggingFace Transformers, OpenRouter LLMs.

CryptoVault

Azure-hosted FastAPI crypto dashboard with automated ReportLab PDFs.

Spark/Kafka Real-Time Streaming Pipeline

Dockerized real-time data pipeline built on Hadoop, Hive, and Kafka.

99% uptime

AUI-Start-Link

Platform connecting AUI student innovators with investors and mentors.

Pitched to AUI leadership as a campus mini-incubator

Internal CRM System: AI Screening and Sourcing

End-to-end AI for U-Investors, deployed as the company's internal ERP: AI screening and sourcing, a RAG assistant over 1,600+ listed startups, and decision dashboards for the partners.

1,600+ startups listed

Experience

Research, internships, and work that shipped.

Tech Lead & Junior AnalystCurrent
Sep 2026 to Present
U-Investors
Casablanca, MoroccoVC fund founded by Driss Laraki · Part-time
- Built the fund's CRM with AI screening and sourcing on top of its deal-flow, deployed as the company's internal ERP.
- Built a RAG assistant over the full database of 1,600+ listed startups, so partners can query the pipeline in plain language.
- Turned the pipeline into dashboards the partners use to make investment decisions.
- Review the technical structure of startups in the pipeline.
startups listed in the CRM
1,600+
startups listed in the CRM
Internal CRM System: AI Screening and Sourcing
Funded Research Intern, ML Virtual Screening for Cancer Drug Discovery
Jun 11 to Jul 24, 2026
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT)
Bangkok, ThailandDepartment of Computational Physics · Assoc. Prof. Dr. Thana Sutthibutpong & Assoc. Prof. Dr. Teeraphan Laomettachit
- Designed an end-to-end ML virtual screening pipeline for new aromatase (CYP19A1) inhibitors in breast cancer drug discovery, trained on 5,308 curated bioactivity compounds.
- Random Forest beat the Liu et al. 2025 benchmark, and Extra Trees performed best across the MeFSAT fungal library.
- Validated the top hit, NPA020664, by docking on PDB 3EQM and a full molecular dynamics run (GROMACS, CHARMM36, VMD, PyMOL). Co-writing a paper for a Q1 journal.
- First Moroccan in KMUTT's computational physics research lab, and the only woman and the youngest researcher on the team; the others were Master's students. Worked with high-performance GPU resources.
compounds screened
51,837
compounds screened
ROC-AUC, Extra Trees
0.978
ROC-AUC, Extra Trees
final candidates
8
final candidates
kcal/mol, top docking hit
−8.96
kcal/mol, top docking hit
ML Virtual Screening for Cancer Drug Discovery
ML Engineer & Research Assistant
Sep to Dec 2025
University of the Fraser Valley, School of Computing
British Columbia, CanadaDr. Russell Campbell · Dr. Mike Ivanof
- Built ML models for sustainable urban planning analytics and a meeting intelligence pipeline with speaker diarization on the AMI corpus, under Dr. Russell Campbell.
- Agriculture research with Dr. Mike Ivanof.
- Presented the research at BC Cancer Research Day 2025 in Vancouver.
Meeting Intelligence System
AI & Automation Intern
Apr to Jun 2025
Ravel Future
Lisbon, Portugal (Remote)
- Benchmarked ML models for sustainable-materials optimization.
- Built automated data pipelines in Python and SQL that sped up the team's decisions.
better decision-making efficiency
35%
better decision-making efficiency
SC
Software Engineering Intern
Jun to Aug 2024
Smart City Ifrane Project
Ifrane, MoroccoDr. Houssain Kettani
- Built a scalable full-stack city-planning platform in React, improving urban development analytics.
less data retrieval time
30%
less data retrieval time
Data Engineer Intern
Jun to Aug 2023
TAQA Morocco
El Jadida / Jorf Lasfar, MoroccoIndependent power producer
- Automated enterprise ETL workflows in Python and SQL.
- Designed Power BI dashboards that support strategic decisions.
- Predictive maintenance analysis on live power-plant operations.
less manual reporting time
25%
less manual reporting time
of Morocco's electricity comes from TAQA
~35%
of Morocco's electricity comes from TAQA
BB
Founder
2023 to 2025
Bliss Bites
Ifrane, MoroccoAgrifood startup
- Founded an agrifood startup and took it from idea to full investor funding.
- Won the Best Startup Award at AUI Entrepreneurship Week two years in a row (2023 and 2024).
- Selected for Ventures Adventure (17 startups from 537 students across 4 universities) and exhibited on the GITEX Africa 2024 expo floor.
- Received 16 government certificates from investors in France, the USA, Morocco, and the UK.
Best Startup Award
2×
Best Startup Award
investor funding
100%
investor funding
government certificates
16
government certificates
Bliss Bites

Education

Where I studied.

Al Akhawayn University (AUI)

B.Sc. in Computer Science, double specialization in AI and Big Data Analytics; minor in Business Administration

Ifrane, Morocco2022 to December 2026

Merit Scholarship (60%)
Dean's List, Spring 2024 and Fall 2025
Held six campus roles across research, teaching, peer mentoring, international-student support, and student services

Explore all six campus roles

Built here:RAG Class Assistant

University of the Fraser Valley (UFV)

Bilateral exchange semester, machine learning, NLP, and finance

British Columbia, CanadaSep to Dec 2025

First bilateral exchange student from AUI (Morocco) at UFV
1st place, UFV Community Ideation Jam 2025
Presented research at BC Cancer Research Day 2025, Vancouver
Dean's List with Distinction

Built here:Meeting Intelligence System AgriVerse

About AUI: the first non-US university in Africa accredited by NECHE, the US accreditor of Harvard, MIT, and Yale (since 2017, renewed through 2032). Computer Science is ABET-accredited, the School of Business holds EFMD EPAS accreditation, and the university is recognized by Morocco's Ministry of Higher Education (MESRS).

Research & honors

Papers, rooms, and honors.

A working record of the questions I pursue, the rooms where I share the work, and the recognition earned along the way.

46selected records

Indexed by subject. Each entry keeps its date, standing, and source together.

Research

8 entries

Predicting Failures Using Neural Networks and Quantum Optimization in Concentrated Solar Power Plants: A Case Study of Morocco Noor Ouarzazate Complex

2026Published

Neural network + quantum optimization pipeline predicting failures at Morocco's Noor Ouarzazate solar complex. Co-authored by Al Akhawayn University and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Published in the ICEF 2026 proceedings (Materials Research Proceedings, Materials Research Forum LLC, USA), indexed in Scopus, open access.

Technical presentation slides (PDF) King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Why Agentic AI Fails in Production: An Empirical Failure Taxonomy for Enterprise Deployment

2026Presented

Structured case corpus of real enterprise AI failures, audit tables, and NIST AI RMF mapping. Presented at IBRS 2026, AUI.

Enterprise AI Reliability Framework (EARF)

2026Presented

Five-dimension certification framework for evaluating autonomous AI agents before production, with retrospective validation against documented failure cases. Presented at IBRS 2026, AUI.

Multi-Agent Enterprise Workflow: A Reference Architecture and Empirical Evaluation

2026Presented

Reference architecture for orchestrating multi-agent systems in enterprise environments, with empirical evaluation. Presented at IBRS 2026, AUI.

Can a Black-Box Model Discover? Epistemic Opacity and the Limits of Machine Learning as a Source of Knowledge

2026Submitted

Philosophy of science paper arguing ML models produce "epistemic artifacts" rather than genuine knowledge, using a real drug-discovery pipeline as the case study. Engages Gettier, Goldman, Rudin, Humphreys, and Pollock. Submitted to Stance (Ball State University, ~7% acceptance rate).

ML Virtual Screening for Cancer Drug Discovery

2026In progress

With Dr. Thana Sutthibutpong. Research question: can ML-guided screening surface aromatase inhibitors in fungal chemical space? Targeting a Q1 journal.

RAG Class Assistant

2026In progress

With Prof. Sofiane Grira. Research question: how well do hybrid retrieval and cross-encoder reranking serve mathematical educational content? Paper in progress.

ESG Banking Papers

2026In progress

With Dr. Youssef Chetioui and Dr. Hind Lebdaoui. Two papers on ESG compliance in banking (profitability and stability), split for separate journal submissions.

Open linked papers or the technical slide deck for the source material.

Places

Rooted in Morocco. Shaped around the world.

Every place on this map changed how I work.

Also

Off the clock.

2022

Writer

Future Young Writer Award at 16. Unpublished French novel, Frénésie.

Music

First female DJ in AUI history. Techno / schranz.

Volunteer

Lions Club, ALCS, Scholars of Sustenance.

What's next

Preparing for the next frontier.

Accepted

LeadGreen Fellowship, Cohort 4

Accepted. Selected from 6,000 applicants. Fully funded pan-African climate leadership.

William Davidson Institute Climate Entrepreneurship Exchange

Cohort 3, AUI × University of Michigan

Intra-Africa 2063 Competition

Accepted to represent AUI. Selected only from AUI. 5th edition, Pharos University, Alexandria, Egypt. AUI-sponsored.

What's next

I'm preparing to pursue graduate studies in AI and machine learning. My research interests are computational biology, NLP for low-resource languages, and AI for sustainable development: building systems that work for the people who need them most.

Recommended by 9+ faculty and industry supervisors across three countries.

Causes

What I defend

Technology should widen the circle of who gets to lead, learn, and build.

Philanthropy & Access

First-gen, no resources, scholarship kid. Every system I build carries that.

Climate & Sustainability

LeadGreen Fellow, selected from 6,000. Sustainable energy at TAQA, sustainable agriculture through AgriVerse.

Youth Leadership

Founded Phi Nu, Morocco's first university sorority, 50 members. Elected to Student Government.

Indigenous & Local Knowledge

Built AgriVerse to pair Indigenous ecological knowledge with ML. 1st place, UFV Community Ideation Jam.

AgriVerse

Women's Health & Computational Drug Discovery

Built an ML pipeline screening 300K+ compounds for breast cancer drug candidates at KMUTT. As a woman in AI, this isn't abstract.

See the project