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Chris Van Buren

Chris Van Buren

Full-Stack AI Engineer & SaaS Founder

I built an AI platform that wrote 1,000+ NIH grant proposals and went from zero to revenue in months. I build tools that accelerate discovery, empower inventors, and make the future possible.

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Grantease
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Grantease

AI-powered NIH grant proposal writing platform

Next.jsPostgreSQLFastAPINode.jsDocker+12
Co-Founder & CTO2024 - 2025
Evaluation Considerations of Synthetic Natural Language Datasets for Question Answering Applications
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Evaluation Considerations of Synthetic Natural Language Datasets for Question Answering Applications

I was the first author of a conference paper presented at TPC Technology Conference 2024.

TransformersPyTorchFine-TuningLLMsPython+2
First Author2024
Transformer Model Ace Sequencing in Blackjack
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Transformer Model Ace Sequencing in Blackjack

Trained transformers to predict ace positions in shuffled decks, probing generalization in high-noise sequence tasks

PyTorchTransformersPython
Solo Project2023
Interactive AI Avatar Demo
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Interactive AI Avatar Demo

Domain-expert chatbot with interactive avatar UI demonstrated at 6 industry conferences

LLMsRAGReactTypeScriptFine-Tuning+6
Lead Engineer & Presenter2023
Making LLMs Work for Enterprise
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Making LLMs Work for Enterprise

Technical blog series and containerized framework for production-ready enterprise RAG systems

RAGVector DatabasesLLMsFastAPIFine-Tuning+4
Author & Framework Developer2024
Autonomous Video Game Agent
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Autonomous Video Game Agent

Research comparing imitation learning vs DAgger for training autonomous agents in SuperTuxKart ice hockey using deep neural networks

Reinforcement LearningPyTorchDeep LearningImitation LearningDAgger Algorithm+3
Solo Project2024
Benchmarking Large Language Models: Opportunities and Challenges
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Benchmarking Large Language Models: Opportunities and Challenges

Co-authored a conferencepaper on LLM benchmarking challenges and opportunities presented at TPC Technology Conference 2023

AI EvaluationLLMsAI InfrastructureHugging Face
Co-Author2023