Antony Van der Mude LLC · Burlington, MA

Building intelligent systems.
Asking harder questions.

AI/ML Engineer · Data Scientist · Independent Researcher

I design and build AI, machine learning, and NLP systems — and I bring an unusually wide set of questions to the work. The technical and the contemplative aren't opposites. They're the same curiosity flowing through different channels.

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What I do

AI & NLP Engineering

Custom model development, NLP pipelines, semantic embeddings, conversational AI, BERT-style architectures, and agentic systems. I've built production-grade AI systems in healthcare, cybersecurity, IoT, and education contexts.

Data Science & Analytics

End-to-end data science — from raw, messy sources to clustering, classification, visualization, and insight delivery. Fluent in Python-based scientific stacks, experienced with both structured and unstructured data at scale.

Research & Writing

White papers, architecture documentation, and interdisciplinary essays. I bring genuine academic rigor — including peer-reviewed publications — to technical writing engagements across science and philosophy.

Featured projects & publications

Project

FamBot

A family coordination AI built on a privacy-first architecture — using locally-running Python code rather than cloud LLMs to analyze personal data. Includes a personalized family profile engine that tailors the agent's recommendations to each household.

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Publication · Biosystems, 2022

A Proposed Information-based Modality for the Treatment of Cancer

A novel theoretical framework treating cancer through an information-theoretic lens, published in Biosystems. Bridges computational thinking with oncology.

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Publication · Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2020

Structure Encoding in DNA

An exploration of how structural information is encoded in DNA sequences, proposing a theoretical framework for structure encoding that bridges genomics and information theory.

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Antony Van der Mude
"I've spent my career at the intersection of intelligent systems and human meaning — building tools that work, and asking why they should."

I'm a data scientist, AI/ML engineer, and independent researcher based in Burlington, MA. My work spans from production NLP pipelines to peer-reviewed papers on quantum metaphysics and evolutionary biology. I believe the deepest engineering questions are ultimately philosophical ones — and I pursue both with equal seriousness.


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