I build the machinery that turns messy evidence into decisions people can trust.
- 15 years of national data and policy research. At the U.S. Federal Highway Administration I managed a $1.5M federal research portfolio as a certified Contracting Officer's Representative. At AARP's Public Policy Institute I led the Livability Index, which scores U.S. neighborhoods from 50+ data sources across 7 domains.
- Founder of QNFO, an independent research imprint. Its AI-assisted pipeline drafts, referees, revises and corrects papers, and every claim states its status.
- Current question: what does a correct computation really cost? I measure it as energy per correct answer (the JPCUB benchmark).
Earlier work is published under Brad Gudzinas.
| Work | What it is |
|---|---|
| The Joules-per-Solution Metric | Definition, measurement protocol and anti-gaming rules for energy per correct answer |
| Error Correction Is a Landauer Machine | The thermodynamic floor of quantum error-correction overhead |
| JPCUB Competitive Landscape v2.0 | System-level energy estimates for 17 quantum computing platforms, from published specifications |
| Joules-per-Solution for Stochastic and Agentic Inference | The same metric applied to frontier and agentic LLMs |
| The Universal Ignorance Audit | A fifteen-question method for stating what a piece of research does not know |
| Epistemic Legibility in AI-Assisted Science | Ignorance auditing as a governance tool for peer review |
| Operating the Quniverse Fleet | Objectives, successes, failures and roadmap of an autonomous cloud research system |
Every QNFO paper is prepared with an AI-assisted research pipeline, and I am responsible for its content. Each paper states its claim, how it could be tested, and its status: hypothesis, estimate, tested or retracted. Corrections are published, not hidden.
| Role | Organization | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Founder | QNFO (independent research) | 2024 to now |
| Executive Director and Founder | Empowering Change, a nonprofit that built an LLM legal-navigation tool for self-represented litigants | 2023 to 2024 |
| Platform Data Product Manager | iManage | 2022 to 2023 |
| Senior Product Manager | Epsilon (Publicis Groupe) | 2021 to 2022 |
| Product Manager and Senior Methods Advisor | AARP Public Policy Institute: Livability Index | 2016 to 2021 |
| Senior Data Scientist | The Advisory Board Company | 2016 |
| Senior Associate, Data Analytics | Deloitte Consulting | 2015 to 2016 |
| Data Analyst and Research Manager | U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration: $1.5M research portfolio; national Tour-Based Model System | 2011 to 2015 |
| GIS analyst, systems planner, consultant | Cross County Connection TMA, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, IBI Group | 2004 to 2011 |
Education: M.S., City and Regional Studies, Rutgers University (2008) · B.A., Urban Studies and Community Planning, Rutgers University-Camden (2004)
Certifications: Project Management Professional (2016) · Contracting Officer's Representative (2011) · AICP (2009)
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