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Hunter Heidenreich

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Hunter Heidenreich is a Research Scientist at Roots, where he drives innovation in universal document understanding and turn-key AI solutions for the general insurance industry. He leads projects in page stream segmentation, interpretable model calibration, and the development of agile, reasoning-based models in an era defined by RL and GRPO, ensuring that AI outcomes are both robust and transparently reliable. He earned his Computer Science degree from Drexel University, where his undergraduate thesis explored adapting Transformer language models for real-world social media applications such as safety and toxicity detection. Building on that foundation, Hunter completed his master's at Harvard University, exploring the application of Transformers and sequence models to scientific computing—developing approximate reduced order models for both chaotic systems and stochastic molecular dynamics simulations.