Meru Gopalan

Affiliate Researcher @ Existential Risk Laboratory (XLab)

About

Interested in AI Safety and Computer SystemsReach out at https://cal.com/merug

Country

United States

City

Silver Spring

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI Safety, PyTorch, Flask, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Unity, C#, C++, HTML, Java, Full-Stack Development, Interpersonal Communication, PHP, MongoDB, jQuery, Python (Programming Language), Anaconda, Linux System Administration, Time Management, Organization Skills

Experience

Affiliate Researcher

Existential Risk Laboratory (XLab)

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

Design and deliver educational workshops aimed at introducing technical AI safety research to the public, bridging the gap between BlueDot and ARENA. The project is generously funded by UChicago Existential Risk Laboratory and supervised by lead of the ARENA program.

Research Fellow

SPAR Research

2025-9 - 2026-2 · 6 mos

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Selected out of 1600+ applicants. Building mathematical foundations for Collective Intelligence.

Linguistics Research Assistant

Georgetown University

2024-5 - 2025-9 · 1 yr 5 mos

Collaborated in a Legal Treebanking project using the CGEL grammar, creating an annotated corpus of the US Code to identify ambiguities in common legal interpretation. Developed and improved a statistical ML language parser (ActiveDOP) using foundational NLP tools. Conducted an independent study using the Universal Dependencies framework and Stanza to analyze specific Adnominal Relative Clause constructions in the US Code.