Meriem Benyahya is a Research Assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the ISI, University of Geneva. She graduated with an Engineering degree from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, and also received a certification in Project Management from Temple University in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, she works on cybersecurity and data privacy implications and risk assessment tasks on Horizon2020 projects, which focus on the domain of automated vehicles. Professionally, she has successfully managed IT projects from different fields and businesses, including PCI-DSS certifications, data center infrastructure migrations, change management, IT master plans, and business continuity plans/disaster recovery.