Dr. Mitchell Sipus

CEO

North Star Labs

Mitchell Sipus, PhD is the CEO and co-founder of North Star Labs, builders of the deterministic substrate for network security across IT, OT, and space. The company's platform is currently deploying across the U.S. Air Force and is installed in government environments including the MIT Lincoln Labs Supercomputing Center and a TS-classified space environment at the Defense Innovation Unit.

Mitchell has spent two decades building data and AI systems at the intersection of national security and frontier technology. He was the first hire at CalypsoAI, where he led the company's USG technical work as principal investigator on programs with AFRL, the Air Force Undersecretary Office for Capability Development and Management (SAF CDM), the DoD Chief Digital and AI Office (CDAO), DARPA, DHS S&T, and the intelligence community. Earlier, he co-founded TulcoLabs, an applied AI R&D lab, which Acrisure Insurance acquired in 2020 for $420 million.

In 2015, the White House appointed Mitchell as a Presidential Innovation Fellow. As a GS-15 federal executive, he drove digital transformation across the VA, NSC, ODNI, and EPA. Mitchell further worked with the US National Security Council to develop a national AI roadmap, providing technical leadership from all US intelligence agencies. Under President Trump, Mitchell continued to serve at the U.S. Department of State under the Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security as the AI expert in the Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance. He has lectured on cybersecurity human factors at National Defense University and on AI systems design at MIT, Harvard, Oxford, Carnegie Mellon, and Johns Hopkins.

Mitchell holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon, where his dissertation applied design research methods to machine learning systems for countering disinformation in the public sector. His work has been featured in WIRED, Forbes, Popular Science, and in public reports by the U.S. Congress, NASA, NIST, and the Department of State.

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