Alekhya Maram

Alekhya Maram

Product Design & Research in New York, San Francisco, she/her

Education

2021 — Now
BA at Barnard College, Columbia University
New York, NY

Major: Human-Computer Interaction

GPA: 4.16

Work Experience

2025 — Now

First intern at a startup revolutionizing education through multimodal generative AI, optimizing language model prompts to enhance personalized & interactive learning experiences.

2025 — Now
Audio Product Intern at Warner Bros. Discovery - CNN Audio
New York, NY

Cross-functional role focused on product strategy, marketing, & data analytics for CNN Audio.

2024 — Now
New York, NY

Designed and facilitated workshop studies with educators, uncovering insights to optimize multimodal large language model (MMLLM) applications for personalized learning experiences.

Leveraging workshop insights to design a platform empowering educators to develop custom MMLLM applications.

2024 — 2024
Pittsburgh, PA

1 of 30 students selected nationwide for CMU’s NSF-funded HCI research program.

Prompt engineered GPT-powered agents to interact with humans in VR & AR to simulate stressful situations.

Conducted 20 user studies & interviews to evaluate prototypes, with 90% of participants expressing intent to use the technology.

Skills: prompt engineering, VR/AR development, conversation design.

2023 — 2023

Designed MVP & subsequent versions of Sounding Board’s brand new Mentoring product, released to thousands of users.

Executed the end-to-end design process, conducting competitive analysis, creating detailed wireframes, and delivering high-fidelity prototypes to the engineering team.

Skilled in utilizing design systems, components & tokens to create cohesive & scalable user experiences.

2023 — 2023

Investigated manager-direct report relationships to determine the business value of creating a brand new manager user experience.

Conducted 12 semi-structured interviews with managers & direct reports about career development, work relationships, & goal-tracking practices.