Portrait of André Nuyens

André Nuyens

I'm building Merion Labs to investigate how to bootstrap nanofactories: manufacturing systems that could make useful machines and materials with atomic precision.

Merion

From Living Machinery to Machines That Build Machines

Could the molecular machinery of life build tools that manufacture beyond biology? Could AI learn from each attempted step which machine to build next? Merion investigates both the physical bootstrap and the intelligence needed to navigate it. I'm exploring how to compress calculations, experiments, and failures into neural models that connect physics, assembly chemistry, synthesis routes, and equipment constraints across a vast design space. The goal is a nanofactory able to make components for its own manufacturing machinery.

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A rendered conceptual workbench and magnified scaffold assembly; proposed handles and joining chemistry remain open research questions.

Education / hobbies

Penn M&T studiesBioengineeringFinance courseworkAI / MLZ Fellows
PianoBeach volleyballIronman triathlonsKitesurfingStrategyArt

Previous work

Bytespace Labs 2024–2026

I founded and built products across healthcare AI, agent execution, context, data, and inference. These six systems were part of Bytespace Labs, not six separate companies.

  • bot0 Agent workspace and harness
  • ctx0Organizational context
  • dom0Browser agents
  • cmd0 Computer use and automation
  • data0Data and evaluations
  • infern0Model runtimes
  • Built a personal knowledge graph at Symbiotica to connect learning material and give an AI assistant useful context (2022–2024).
  • Modeled light transport in tissue for computational physics research in optogenetics (2019).
  • Digitized pediatric clinical records to train CNNs and RNNs (2018).
André working at his desk with handwritten research notes covering the surrounding walls