Brandon Duderstadt is a hacker, acrobat, AI researcher, and entrepreneur from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, currently based in Williamsburg, New York. He draws on his unconventional training as both a biomedical engineer and a street acrobat to explore themes of emergence and absurdity at the intersection of the natural and the artificial. Brandon has played key roles in several startups, including as a co-founder of Nomic AI and an early team member at Rad AI. His research has been featured at top conferences including ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and CVPR, and covered by Forbes, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.