Michael Bilca

Founder & Principal Architect — temper.ai 2002 – Present

• Independent Spiking Neural Networks researcher since 2002; launched temper.ai as a research platform and AI alignment publication venue.
• Built Turing, a working neuromorphic SNN demonstration platform leveraging LLM APIs, exploring distributed intelligence architectures as alternatives to centralized AI models.
• Published six-part thesis examining systemic risks in centralized AI architectures — including instruction-data conflation in autonomous agents, synthetic feedback loops, and training data contamination — proposing distributed neuromorphic architectures as structurally safer alternatives.
• Developed STDP learning algorithms with dopamine-modulated weight adaptation, demonstrating self-organizing dynamics and real-time temporal spike processing.
• Implemented platform in Go with OpenGL visualization, demonstrating real-time neural dynamics on commodity hardware.

Technical Standards Strategist — FBI / Tridea Works 2013 – 2025

• Served as primary technical advisor on 5G lawful intercept strategy, unifying policy and architectures for ~20,000 law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
• Represented U.S. law enforcement as technical lead in 3GPP SA3, SA3-LI and ETSI NFV Security, building international consensus and driving adoption of U.S. requirements.
• Led security requirements and architecture across multi-vendor cloud-native virtualized platforms, translating complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders.
• Directed cybersecurity strategy in international forums, driving USG alignment with technology modernization across satellite, 3G/4G/5G/6G, and cloud architectures.

Executive Engineer — In Depth Engineering, Inc. 2011 – 2013

• Developed mathematical modeling, system architecture, and operational implementation of the U.S. Navy Anti-Torpedo Torpedo (ATT) Response Management System.
• Created analytical approach to maximize probability of target acquisition; built carrier motion, launch, and intercept models.
• Presented R&D results to Navy leadership and gained acceptance for deployment — demonstrating ability to convey complex technical solutions to senior government decision-makers.
• Implemented models and operational code in Wolfram Mathematica, Java, and C++.

Executive Engineer — ASSETT 2008 – 2011

• Built and led engineering team on the Ohio Replacement Program (Columbia-class) next-generation submarine combat system, driving technical strategy that secured a $75M engineering services contract.
• Demonstrated live code injection and zero-downtime upgrades across C/C++, Python, Java, and OpenGL on SOA substrate.
• Migrated advanced architectural concepts from R&D into the Virginia-class submarine combat system.
• Served as consulting member of the Submarine Navy Systems Architecture Working Group.

Senior Consulting Engineer — Tridea Works (FBI/CALEA Implementation Unit) 2003 – 2008

• Served as IP network intercept technology specialist at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, supporting the CALEA Implementation Unit.
• Developed standards strategy and technical contributions for U.S. electronic surveillance standards across ATIS, CableLabs, IETF, WISPA, and WiMAX standards bodies.
• Developed U.S. buffered data intercept requirements; drove implementations across multiple standards organizations.
• Served as editor of numerous ATIS PTSC standards and technical reports, including T1.678, Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance for Internet Access Services, and Technical Report on Buffering.
• Monitored IETF MANET and Autoconf groups for surveillance impact on mobile ad-hoc networks; integrated findings into FBI intercept strategy.
• Drafted petitions to the FCC challenging deficient published lawful intercept standards.
• Served as Facility Security Officer, implementing DSS facility and personnel clearance regulations.
• Evaluated, trained, and mentored new hires.

Systems Architect — Lucent Bell Labs 2000 – 2002

• Represented Lucent in ITU-T Geneva Study Group 11 on ISUP/BICC/SIP interworking, contributing to international VoIP standards.
• Led "skunk works" team that architected and delivered a Java/SWING/JDBC/XML client-server application for managing telephony announcements across networked SoftSwitches — delivered one month ahead of schedule.
• Represented Lucent in customer technical engagements with Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, and AT&T; aligned product roadmap with customer requirements.
• Designed redundant subsystem architecture that was subsequently adopted system-wide.
• Responded to RFPs and RFIs — including requirements authored in prior role at AT&T Labs.
• Published articles and gave labs-wide seminars on VoIP standards; mentored junior developers.

Systems Architect — AT&T Bell Labs 1999 – 2000

• Analyzed and recommended Voice over Packet network solutions (IP/ATM/MPLS) for evolving the AT&T long-distance circuit-switched network.
• Performed network topology mathematical studies and recommended optimal configurations.
• Innovated throttled, self-adaptive packet architecture for bearer traffic; initiated patent application process.
• Published RFPs/RFIs and evaluated vendor responses.

B.S., Mathematical & Computational Science — Stanford University

Mathematics/Group Theory, Computer Science/AI, Statistics, Operations Research/Optimization | Hoefer Prize in Mathematics

Graduate Coursework, Electrical Engineering, Advanced Mathematics — Princeton University

Game Theory, Wireless Systems