Tom Zick is an AI researcher and attorney, currently serving as President of Trillium Labs, a nonprofit dedicated to building out the open research ecosystem for frontier AI. Her work focuses on open models, post-training methods and AI governance.
Tom has advised organizations ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies on emerging AI and privacy issues, and has contributed to standards like the NIST AI RMF and AIUC-1. She has held roles in industry, building out the responsible AI team at Charles Schwab, in academia, where she partnered with leading frontier AI labs to build collaborations with Harvard’s research community around red teaming and model alignment, and in city government.
Tom holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley.
