Jason Stiltner
Staff Engineer
Research: multi-agent coordination, verifiable behavior, scalable oversight
Production: ML systems, cloud infrastructure, cross-platform integration
Focus
Pre-linguistic coordination: how agents cooperate without shared language. Verifiable behavior grounded in observable actions rather than stated intentions.
Applied research with empirical validation. Production deployment.
Research
Grounded Commitment Learning
Multi-agent coordination via verifiable behavioral contracts. Applies Hart-Moore incomplete contract theory (Nobel 2016) to AI systems. Addresses scalable oversight through behavioral verification without internal state access.
36.8% hold-up reduction (95% CI: [28.4%, 45.2%]). Punishment paradox: r = -0.951, p < 0.001. 382 statistical tests, 6 theorems validated.
Document Understanding Pipeline
Production ML system with confidence-based routing across LLM providers. Human-in-the-loop for low-confidence outputs, RLHF for continuous improvement.
HIPAA-compliant architecture. Audit trails for all model decisions. Deployed at scale in healthcare.
Collaborative Nested Learning
Continual learning via multi-timescale optimization. +89% accuracy at high regularization. Pareto-dominant across retention-accuracy tradeoff.
Methods
- Empirical validation. Rigorous experimental design with statistical controls. Effect sizes, confidence intervals, multiple hypothesis correction.
- Formal foundations. Mathematical proofs where applicable. Convergence guarantees, conservation laws, contraction mappings.
- Production deployment. Research that ships. CI/CD, test coverage, documentation, monitoring.
- Infrastructure. GCP, Terraform, Docker. HIPAA-compliant architectures, multi-provider routing, edge deployment.
Additional Work
HALA: Pattern language for human-AI role allocation. 28 patterns for organizational deployment of AI systems. Addresses gap between technical capability and organizational adoption.
Background
M.A. Université de Paris VII (French-language graduate program)
Littérature, Langues, et Civilisations des Pays Anglophones