Sam Burns

Data and AI, Technical Services, School of Computing at UT Austin. Two decades at the iSchool.

Twenty years at The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information, from systems administration to web, communications, research, and IT leadership. In 2026 the iSchool became the Department of Information in the new School of Computing, and I now work on data and AI for the school’s Technical Services team.

Interests

  • Retrieval-augmented generation for institutional knowledge, and how to evaluate it
  • AI governance and data classification in higher education
  • User experience, information architecture, and web accessibility
  • Social media behavior and tagging conventions

This site

Jekyll with the Minimal Mistakes theme, built by GitHub Actions and hosted on DreamHost. Written and maintained with AI coding assistants, Claude Code among them, under my direction, as most of my work is now.