Brandon Duderstadt is a hacker, acrobat, AI researcher, and entrepreneur from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, currently living in Williamsburg, New York. He is currently building Calcifer Computing, a speculative AI research and development company. Brandon has played key roles in several startups, including as the founding CEO of Nomic AI and an early team member at Rad AI. His research has been featured at conferences including ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and CVPR, and covered by Forbes, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. He also holds a faculty position at Johns Hopkins University, and sits on the board of Wikimedia NYC.