Ugur Kuter
Technical Fellow (R&D) at SIFT (Smart Information Flow Technologies)
Potomac, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolUgur Kuter is a Technical Fellow with 15+ years of R&D experience applying AI to decentralized autonomy, multi-agent coordination, and explainable planning for mission-critical defense programs. He has led or served as PI on numerous DARPA, AFRL, ONR, and DIU projects developing adversarial reasoning, ethical hazard analysis for autonomous systems, hierarchical task learning with LLMs, and team-cohesion recommendation algorithms. His work bridges automated planning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge-graph dynamics, and evolutionary/game-theoretic approaches, with practical impact on contested-communications teaming and cyber-attack planning. Prior to industry leadership at SIFT he was research faculty at UMD/UMIACS and holds a PhD in AI from University of Maryland, reflecting a strong academic foundation. Based in Potomac, MD, he combines deep theoretical interests—recently in quantum entanglement and time—with hands-on systems delivery for defense customers. Colleagues know him for translating abstract models of intelligence into deployable algorithms that prioritize transparency and human-centered decision support.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkM.S., Artificial Intelligence, 4.00, M.S., Artificial Intelligence, 4.00 at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (8)
allegro-cl10
clozure-cl10
lispworks10
tla10
common-lisp10
sbcl10
tlaplus9
git-repository9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
shop-planner/shop3
Jan 2011 - Apr 2022
SHOP3 Git repository
Contributions:1 review, 38 commits, 2 PRs in 11 years 5 months
sbclgit-repositoryclozuretlacommon-lisp
SD2E/xplan
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
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