Brandon Duderstadt is a hacker, acrobat, AI researcher, and entrepreneur from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, currently living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Brandon holds dual academic and industrial affiliations. At Johns Hopkins University, he is a Whiting Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics, where he conducts research and teaches courses on Computational Semiotics. As an entrepreneur, he is the founder and CEO of Calcifer Computing, and was previously the founding CEO of Nomic AI. His research has appeared at NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ACL, and EMNLP, and has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.