User:Mlekhi

Hi! I’m Maya Lekhi, a Computer Science and Business student at Western University and the Ivey Business School. I care deeply about mental health, open access, and building technology that makes people feel seen. My journey into tech started with a fascination for how psychology and data intersect. I’ve since worked at Meta, TD Bank, Mercor, and Borealis AI, and led youth organizations that empower thousands.

• Founder of Momentum — London's coworking community for makers of all kinds
• Research assistant at Castellani Lab - research in mitochondrial bioinformatics
• Machine Learning Intern at Borealis AI — built large-scale infrastructure for LLMs
• Fellow at Contrary Research - writing about impactful private tech companies
• President of Project 5K — mobilized 3,500+ youth for social impact
• Open-source contributor — affective computing, design, and free digital tools
• Former French tutor and founder of a five-figure educational business

I’m especially interested in:

• Open source tools for mental health and education
• Hardware and affective AI research
• Making STEM, research, and entrepreneurship more accessible to youth and marginalized communities

• [1]: An open-source machine learning model for empathetic communication, tuned on EEG signals.
• [2]: A vector-embedding-based matchmaking algorithm (and platform!) for 100+ event attendees, built using sentence transformers
• [3]: An open-source housing guide for Western students with 5k+ site visits.

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