Summary
Basem Rizk is an Applied AI Engineer with eight years of experience building research-driven, production-ready AI systems focused on multimodal content understanding and human-centered intelligence. He holds an MS in Computer Science (AI) from USC and has led projects spanning on-prem agentic automation, video knowledge-graph pipelines for educational content, and mixed-reality digital assistants tested with NASA SUITS. At RedBlock he architected an on-prem agent that outperformed competitors on identity tasks and contributed provisional patents, while at USC-ISI he developed dynamic prompting frameworks and prototype companion bots for notebook workflows. His work uniquely blends academic rigor with product impact—designing configurable pipelines that fuse CV and NLP methods into downstream competency detectors and LLM grounding for procedural companions. Based in Walnut Creek, he is driven by a curiosity for learning and a practical interest in leveraging emotional, behavioral, and physiological signals to optimize human productivity and wellbeing.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence), Master of Science - MS, Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at University of Southern California
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at The German University in Cairo
Exchange student Academic Year Completion by OCEAN, Exchange student Academic Year Completion by OCEAN at Owatonna Senior High School
English, Arabic, German