Autonomous Intelligent Cyber Defense Agent (Aica): A Comprehensive Guide

Dr. Alexander Kott serves as the Chief Scientist of the U.S. Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory. In this role he provides leadership in development of ARL technical strategy, maintaining technical quality of ARL research, and representing ARL to the external technical community. Dr. Kott is also the Army Senior Research Scientist (ST) for Cyber Resilience, in which capacity he formulates the vision of future technologies critical to the Army cyber resilience, and advocates and shapes plans and programs leading to such technologies. Prior to becoming the Chief Scientist of ARL, Dr. Kott was the Chief of the Network Science Division at ARL, leading a division focused on innovative basic and applied research, threat analysis, technology transition and security operations in computer, communications, information, and social networks; formulating and executing a broad range of internal and extramural research programs. Earlier, Dr. Kott served as a Program Manager at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he was responsible for management of multiple, large-scale R&D projects. Kott's earlier positions included Director of Research and Development at Carnegie Group, Pittsburgh, PA. There, his work focused on novel information technology approaches, such as Artificial Intelligence, to complex problems in engineering design, and planning and control in manufacturing, telecommunications and aviation industries. Dr. Kott earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1989, where he researched AI approaches to invention of complex systems. He received the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Public Service Award, in October 2008. He published over 100 technical papers and served as the co-author and editor of twelve books.

亞歷山大·科特博士擔任美國陸軍戰鬥能力發展指揮部陸軍研究實驗室的首席科學家。在這個職位上，他負責制定ARL技術戰略的領導，維護ARL研究的技術質量，並代表ARL與外部技術社群互動。科特博士還擔任陸軍資訊安全的高級研究科學家，他制定了與陸軍資訊安全相關的未來技術願景，並倡導和塑造相應的計劃和項目。在擔任ARL首席科學家之前，科特博士是ARL網絡科學部門的主管，領導該部門進行創新的基礎和應用研究、威脅分析、技術轉化和計算機、通信、信息和社交網絡的安全運營；制定和執行各種內部和外部研究計劃。早些時候，科特博士在國防高級研究計劃局（DARPA）擔任項目經理，負責管理多個大規模的研發項目。科特博士之前的職位還包括匹茲堡卡內基集團的研發總監，他在那裡的工作主要集中在工程設計、製造、電信和航空等行業中，利用人工智能等新穎的信息技術方法解決複雜問題的研究。科特博士於1989年在匹茲堡大學獲得機械工程博士學位，他的研究方向是利用人工智能方法創造複雜系統。他於2008年獲得國防部傑出公共服務獎，並發表了100多篇技術論文，並擔任12本書的合著者和編輯。