Sean Batir

Sean P. Batir is currently the Principal Tech Lead for Frontier AI, Quantum, and Robotics across the National Security division of Amazon Web Services. Driven to deliver decision advantage for the national security apparatus, he works across multiple agencies, commercial partners, and Amazon Web Services to evolve and integrate emerging technologies into sensitive, high-impact workflows at speed and scale. Sean P. Batir served as the first Chief Technology Officer of the MAVEN program at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Mr. Batir brought a decade of experience in technology innovation from Silicon Valley and academia into the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, including real-world applications of large language models, computer vision, and mu to enhance intelligence operations workflows for the warfighter. From October 2021 to April 2023, Mr. Batir served as the Chief Engineer of Project Maven at the Office of the Undersecretary for Defense, Intelligence and Security (OUSD(I&S)). He has also held key roles in cross-functional, stakeholder engagement and pioneered inter-institutional collaboration at the Army Research Lab and the BMW Group. He has driven research and development with both academia and industry partners in previous roles to identify interdisciplinary avenues of collaboration. Highlights include partnering with the University of Waterloo to drive applications of neuromorphic computing for vehicle manufacturing, collaborating with Affectiva to study computer vision applications for emotion recognition in vehicles, and experimentation with OneWeb to demonstrate the first 5G-to LEO-satellite hand-off for continuous connectivity experimentation with BMW. Mr. Batir holds a bachelor’s degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Master’s degree in Bioengineering (focus in Neural engineering) from the Imperial College of London, a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) from the Quantic School of Science and Technology, and certificates in Quantum Computing and Algorithm Design from MIT and Biomedical Entrepreneurship from Oxford University’s Said Business School. Mr. Batir is also the author to multiple patents related to energy grid management through the blockchain, as well as the contributing author to a variety of research abstracts that range from studying the reprogramming of neural circuitry for memory, biometric and modular jewelry for remote-sensing, and unconventional therapeutics for Parkinson’s disease. His current area of active research includes compositional reasoning for frontier AI models.