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.
Selected work
Definition, measurement protocol and anti-gaming rules for energy per correct answer.
The thermodynamic floor of quantum error-correction overhead.
System-level energy estimates for 17 quantum computing platforms, from published specifications.
The same metric applied to frontier and agentic LLMs.
A fifteen-question method for stating what a piece of research does not know.
Ignorance auditing as a governance tool for peer review.
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 states its claim, how it could be tested, and its status: hypothesis, estimate, tested or retracted. The full library is at papers.qnfo.org; the publications page lists the selected work.
Career
| Years | Role |
|---|---|
| 2024 to now | Founder, QNFO (independent research) |
| 2023 to 2024 | Executive Director and Founder, Empowering Change, a nonprofit that built an LLM legal-navigation tool for self-represented litigants |
| 2022 to 2023 | Platform Data Product Manager, iManage |
| 2021 to 2022 | Senior Product Manager, Epsilon (Publicis Groupe) |
| 2016 to 2021 | Product Manager and Senior Methods Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute: Livability Index |
| 2016 | Senior Data Scientist, The Advisory Board Company |
| 2015 to 2016 | Senior Associate, Data Analytics, Deloitte Consulting |
| 2011 to 2015 | Data Analyst and Research Manager, U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration: $1.5M research portfolio; national Tour-Based Model System |
| 2004 to 2011 | GIS analyst, systems planner and consultant: Cross County Connection TMA, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, IBI Group |
M.S., City and Regional Studies, Rutgers University (2008). B.A., Urban Studies and Community Planning, Rutgers University-Camden (2004). Full CV.
Exploratory theory
Interactive demos from the ultrametric theory line. They explore hypotheses; they are not results.