Bruce Tisler

Research & Systems Profile

Researcher and systems architect at Quantum Inquiry investigating the structure of inquiry, including whether WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, and HOW form a minimal necessary basis for primitive state-of-affairs inquiry. Develops formal arguments and preregistered experiments, preserves inspectable evidence including null results, and publishes research artifacts and demonstrations. Translates specified research problems into tested instruments and software, including the TraceStack accountability ecosystem and the Epic1 and FieldLex clinical information-integrity prototypes.

SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS & RESEARCH RECOGNITION

• Routledge book chapter. “Regulatory Sandboxes and Experimental Governance for Workplace AI Agents,” Chapter 10 in Legal Governance of Agentic AI and Autonomous Agents: Regulating the Future of Work (Routledge / Taylor & Francis). Examines documentary accountability in governance of workplace AI agents, including DDRP, CAAP, and DAS. Publisher.
• Active Inference Institute ecosystem project. Geometric Inquiry Theory (2026), listed by the Institute as an ecosystem project. Research examines whether WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY, and HOW provide a minimal necessary basis for structured inquiry, alongside preregistered empirical investigations. Project developed through Quantum Inquiry. Project listing.
• Sixth Applied Active Inference Symposium, research presenter. Presented “The Minimal Necessary Basis for Primitive State-of-Affairs Inquiry,” November 12–13, 2026. Presentation recording · Paper DOI · Program DOI.
• Selected publications. “Q-State: A Formal Framework for Reasoning Stability Under Recursive Inquiry” (DOI); “The Documentary Accountability Substrate” (DOI); “The Documentary Accountability Gap in AI Governance” (DOI).

RESEARCH-TO-SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT | TRACESTACK

TraceStack addresses documentary accountability across governed workflows: what authority applied, what evidence supported a decision, and how that decision can be attributed and reviewed. Its development connects defined research problems to deterministic instruments, tested controls, and integrations with operational software. Related clinical research produced Epic1 for examining information changes across handoffs and FieldLex for detecting an autocorrected word propagating upstream through a clinical information chain.

• Documentary Accountability Substrate (DAS) / DDRP / CAAP. Developed methods for extracting explicit obligation-bearing language, preserving source coordinates, generating evidence artifacts, and recording attribution across decisions and actions.
• Policy and authority controls (PAL and related components). Implemented governed policy checks and authorization evidence in representative workflows; evaluated through acceptance and regression tests.
• Minimal Informational Boundary (MIB). Built claim-specific disclosure and provenance-closure controls with independently checked integrity, closure, and verdict recomputation, including tamper and rehash-attack tests.
• Apache Fineract banking integration. Integrated TraceStack accountability components with Apache Fineract and Mifos-based workflows using synthetic loans. Recorded an 8/8 acceptance pass and 10/10 regression pass following remediation; preserved audit and test evidence.
• Enterprise demonstrations. Developed virtual banking and hospital workflow demonstrations that make traceable evidence, governance boundaries, and attributed decisions inspectable in representative operational settings.
• Epic1 Clinical Explorer. Built and deployed a synthetic clinical information-integrity experiment examining record changes and propagation across hospital handoffs. Implemented seven synthetic pathways, 87 clinical events, 20/20 engine test passes, 8/8 A/B regression passes, and 14 evidence exports; published an interactive demonstration and supporting white paper. No live Epic EHR integration is claimed.
• FieldLex. Developed a field-specific lexical anomaly detection prototype specifically to identify an autocorrected word that propagates upstream through a clinical information chain. Tested 27 synthetic cases, with 88.9% precision and 88.9% recall. FieldLex and Epic1 were independently developed and tested.

RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS & EMPIRICAL VALIDATION

• Question Lineage Witness. Developed a deterministic, append-only instrument evaluating question-lineage transitions under C1–C7 criteria, including branching, merging, re-encoding, and forgery detection.
• Conversation State Visualizer and related instruments. Developed source-linked tools for inspecting analytical state, entity relationships, and unresolved structural gaps for subsequent inquiry.
• MARL Protocols 1–8. Designed a preregistered, multi-seed research program. Protocols 1–6 include 425 confirmatory runs with archived code, data, preregistrations, and findings; retained null results and documented deviations.
• Selected experimental findings. Protocol 2 measured query-flooding as constraint evasion (SSS 0.303 constrained vs. 0.725 unconstrained; Cohen’s d = -2.18). Protocol 3 found enforcement opacity increased observed gaming (d = +2.22). Protocol 6 reported median entropy–SSS r = -0.680, p < 0.001, in tested conditions.
• Large-scale LLM diagnostics. Evaluated entropy-variance measures across 321,600 HH-RLHF prompt-response pairs and studied affect drift across different question structures.

Professional Experience

Researcher and Systems Architect | Quantum Inquiry | 2022–Present

Conduct formal research, experimental evaluation, instrument design, software architecture, verification, publication, and public demonstration development. Define research problems, specifications, acceptance criteria, and evidentiary boundaries; direct AI-assisted engineering and inspect results against recorded tests.

Healthcare Systems Architect | Uganda Distributed Healthcare Initiative | 2000–2001

Designed a distributed rural healthcare service model integrating medical-data flow, service coordination, and resource allocation under severe infrastructure constraints in Kanungu District.

IT Systems and Network Infrastructure | Advanced Media Medical Systems / Hexagon Management / Decision One | 1990s–2000s

Designed and deployed PACS imaging networks and EMR distribution systems; founded and operated an ISP; supported networks serving small teams through environments of approximately 2,000 users.

Methods, Tools & Education

• Research methods. Preregistration, locked hypotheses, controlled comparators, multi-seed replication, adversarial testing, mutation testing, held-out evaluation, deviation logs, pass/fail gates, effect sizes, and reproducibility manifests.
• Technical practice. Python; PyTorch ecosystem; React/TypeScript; Git/GitHub; model APIs; local GPU and cloud compute; automated testing; research infrastructure and enterprise demonstrations.
• Education and earlier credentials. California Culinary Academy, Hospitality & Restaurant Management, honors and special recognition; earlier Novell CNE, A+, HP/Compaq systems certifications, EMT-P, ACLS, and BTLS.

Research résumé | Updated November 2026 | About Quantum Inquiry's researcher