One accurate description, with a public source for each fact. Updated 1 October 2026. Plain-text version: declaration.md and llms.txt.
Rowan Brad Quni-Gudzinas is a research systems builder with 15 years in national data and policy research: research portfolio manager at the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (2011 to 2015) and product manager of the AARP Livability Index (2016 to 2021). Since 2024: founder of QNFO, an open research imprint whose AI-assisted pipeline drafts, referees, revises and corrects papers, with each claim's status stated. Current research question: what a correct computation really costs, measured as energy per correct answer (the JPCUB benchmark).
| Years | Role | Public source |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 to now | Founder, QNFO (independent research) | qnfo.org/about |
| 2023 to 2024 | Executive Director and Founder, Empowering Change (nonprofit; LLM legal-navigation tool) | ORCID |
| 2016 to 2021 | Product Manager and Senior Methods Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute: Livability Index | AARP Livability Index |
| 2015 to 2016 | Senior Associate, Data Analytics, Deloitte Consulting | TRB 2016 paper on the National Household Travel Survey |
| 2011 to 2015 | Data Analyst and Research Manager, U.S. DOT Federal Highway Administration | FHWA report prepared for Brad Gudzinas as project lead |
Every QNFO paper is prepared with an AI-assisted research pipeline, and the author is responsible for its content. The ultrametric and adelic theory papers are published hypotheses, not established results. Full library: papers.qnfo.org.