About
I'm Shan Rizvi, a context architect building AI systems that model human cognition through knowledge graphs, semantic memory, and psychological profiling. My work gives language models the ability to remember, reason, and respond with relationship awareness.
Recent projects include a 32-billion parameter scientific reasoning engine trained on landmark papers using knowledge graphs with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, a self-improving agentic knowledge graph for compound synthesis (second prize at AGI House's AI4Science Hackathon), the first queryable knowledge graph of 30 years of UN diplomatic history, an empathic AI companion with adaptive psychological profiling, and an open-source graph memory for LLMs.
I am driven by the conviction that harmonization of consciousness has been humanity's highest ambition across diverse cultures for thousands of years.
My electic pursuit of knowledge allows me to see bridges between neuroscience, mystical traditions, AI systems engineering, and geopolitical strategy. These aren't separate domains—they're different symbolic systems concerning the same underlying reality. What mystics intuited about consciousness, neuroscience now measures, and AI can operationalize.
Base
New York, NY
Current theme
Scientific Reasoning
Mood
Cautiously Optimistic
Current Focus
- Training large-scale AI models that synthesize scientific literature through graph-powered reinforcement learning, enabling evidence-based reasoning across physics, biology, neuroscience, and philosophy.
- Building queryable diplomatic archives and geopolitical timelines that surface historical patterns across decades of UN speeches, resolutions, and voting records.
- Publishing open letters that braid scripture, history, and advanced AI into practical peace frameworks for world leaders.
Previous Ventures
Just Ads (2018–2022). Co-founded an advertising automation platform that empowered brands like Alexander Wang to orchestrate multi-platform campaigns with intuitive AI tooling.
Pencil News (2016–2017). Led one of the first AI-powered Urdu news apps, delivering custom NLP pipelines—tokenization, transliteration, sentiment analysis—to serve 300K+ readers.
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Always happy to collaborate or compare notes on human-centric AI, knowledge graphs, and product strategy.
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