Founder
About
Gully Burns
I’ve spent my career asking one question in different forms: How do we find truth?
The path has been anything but straight:
sciknow.io — Agentic Curation
Taking everything I've learned about knowledge engineering, AI, and scientific method and packaging it as agentic curation: AI agents that don't just search, but systematically investigate and structure complex knowledge.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative — AI for Science
Led work on AI systems for scientific knowledge management — making the world's biomedical research more discoverable, structured, and useful.
NLP & Machine Learning
Applied natural language processing to scientific text at scale. Worked on information extraction, claim detection, and evidence mapping across large literature corpora.
Knowledge Engineering
Built ontologies and knowledge bases for biomedical research. Discovered that structuring knowledge is both a technical and deeply human challenge.
Neuroinformatics — USC ISI
Neuroscience data integration, building systems to help researchers make sense of the brain literature. Learned that the hardest part of science isn't generating data — it's connecting it.
Physics
Started with the fundamentals. Studied how the universe works at the most basic level, and learned that good science requires relentless rigor in observation and inference.
The throughline: every role has been about helping people find signal in noise, connecting scattered evidence into coherent understanding.