Dr. Mitchell Sutika-Sipus

Chief Solutions Architect

AutogenAI

Mitchell Sutika-Sipus, PhD is the CTO of North Star Labs.He has 20 years of experience and PhD dissertation at Carnegie Mellon concerned the application of design research methods to machine learning products to combat disinformation in the public sector. Mitchell further has a masters in city planning economics, a masters of science and architecture, and bachelors in drawing. In 2007, Mitchell founded SSR+D, a technical data consultancy for governments in conflict, specialized in the creation of ground verified geographic data in complex and unstable environments such as Afghanistan, Syria, and Somalia. In 2013, Mitchell founded Symkala, a machine learning startup dedicated to crafting geographic analysis from unstructured text documents. In 2016, he was appointed by President Obama as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. As a White House GS-15, Mitchell drove large-scale digital transformation across multiple agencies as a GS-15 federal executive including Veterans Affairs (VA), the National Security Council (NSC), Office of the Directorate of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 2017, he served at the US Department of State, for the Undersecretary of Arms Control and International Security, as an AI expert with the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance. In 2018, he co-founded TulcoLabs, an applied AI R&D lab for the private equity portfolio of billionaire Thomas Tull. The lab was acquired in 2020 for $420 million USD by Acrisure Insurance. As the first hire at CalypsoAI, Mitchell led all USG technical efforts, frequently the Principle Investigator for initiatives with Air Force Research Labs, the US Air Force Undersecretary Office for Capability Development and Management (SAF CDM), The Department of Defense Chief Artificial Intelligence Data Office (DOD CDAO), Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Division (DHS S&T), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and members of the US intelligence community. Mitchell's works have been featured in a range of publications including WIRED, Popular Science, Forbes and public facing reports from the US Congress, NASA, US Department of State, and various intelligence agencies. He has lectured on his works at a range of institutions including MIT, Harvard, Cornell, Oxford University, and the Tong Ji Institute of Innovation in Shanghai, China. In 2016, Mitchell routinely lectured at National Defense University on Human Factors in Cybersecurity. He has additionally taught courses on the design of environmental sensing and AI systems at Carnegie Mellon University School of Design, The CMU Human Computer Interaction Institute, and the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School MBA program.

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