Contact Me
To collaborate, you can reach me at amerkmriziq(at)gmail(dot)c o m
Tap anything for more informationWhere I've Worked

Tickr AI
Applied AI Research Scientist
2025

Fastino Labs
Member of Technical Staff
2024 - 2025

Cisco
Technical Program Manager, Data Governance
2022 - 2023
Program Manager, Data and Analytics
2021
Product Manager Intern, AI
2020

Tower Foundation
Research Assistant, Economics Department
2020 - 2021

Palmstreet
Product Manager / Data Engineer Intern
2020

Prototype Capital
Senior Associate
2019
Associate
2018
Intern
2018

Forkable
Business Development Intern
2018
(Some) Things I've Built
Research and Writings
Design framework for context-heavy AI workflows
Reduce friction in LLM workflows by centralizing context
2025•UC Berkeley, School of Information
GuardNER: An NER Benchmark for Evaluating Harm and Toxicity
Evaluating zero-shot NER language model performances on harm detection
2025•UC Berkeley, School of Information
What Your LLM Thinks of You: Designing AI Dashboards for Trust and Transparency
A novel transparency dashboad for ChatGPT to display system biases in real-time
2024•UC Berkeley, School of Information
Survey of AI Guardrails (May 2023)
An market survey of AI guardrail (safety controls) solutions
2023•UC Berkeley, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Human-in-the-loop recommender system
Pairwise comparison and an investigation into a more responsible recommendation system
2023•UC Berkeley, College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Saving lives one bale at a time
Connection between cotton production and lynchings in the U.S. South during the early Twentieth Century
2023•Applied Economics, Volume 55, Issue 15 (2023)

