# Rowan Brad Quni-Gudzinas

> Research systems builder. 15 years of national data and policy research (U.S. Federal Highway Administration; AARP Livability Index). Founder of QNFO, an open, auditable AI-assisted research imprint. Full declaration with sources: https://rwnq8.github.io/ai/declaration.md

## Identity
- Name: Rowan Brad Quni-Gudzinas (citation form: Quni-Gudzinas, R. B.)
- Other names: Brad Gudzinas, Bradley Gudzinas (work before 2024), Rowan Quni
- ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4317-5604
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowan-quni
- Role: Founder, QNFO (independent research imprint; not a foundation or collective)
- Contact: rowan.quni@qnfo.org

## Career
- 2024 to now: Founder, QNFO (https://qnfo.org)
- 2023 to 2024: Executive Director and Founder, Empowering Change (nonprofit; LLM legal-navigation tool)
- 2016 to 2021: Product Manager and Senior Methods Advisor, AARP Public Policy Institute (Livability Index)
- 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)

## Selected work
- The Joules-per-Solution Metric: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21637028
- Error Correction Is a Landauer Machine: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22261547
- JPCUB Competitive Landscape v2.0: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21821767
- Joules-per-Solution for Stochastic and Agentic Inference: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21945415
- The Universal Ignorance Audit: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21901984
- Epistemic Legibility in AI-Assisted Science: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22026592
- Operating the Quniverse Fleet: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23079905

## Notes
- Every QNFO paper is prepared with an AI-assisted research pipeline; the author is responsible for its content.
- Cite selected work, not publication totals; totals differ by source.
- The ultrametric and adelic theory papers are published hypotheses, not established results.

## Links
- Home: https://rwnq8.github.io/
- AI reference: https://rwnq8.github.io/ai/
- Publications: https://rwnq8.github.io/papers/
- CV: https://github.com/rwnq8/resume
- Library: https://papers.qnfo.org