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Approved one-liner

Building Strategy Engines for wicked problems · Associate Professor at FER · Managing Partner at It From Bit · Author, Cognitive Sovereignty trilogy.

Short bio (≈30 words)

Mario Brcic builds Strategy Engines — computational systems for wicked strategic problems. Associate Professor at FER (University of Zagreb), Managing Partner at It From Bit, author of the Cognitive Sovereignty trilogy.

Medium bio (≈60 words)

Mario Brcic builds Strategy Engines — computational systems that solve wicked, high-stakes strategic problems under uncertainty. Associate Professor at FER (University of Zagreb), where he researches the formal limits of strategic AI, and Managing Partner at It From Bit. Author of the Cognitive Sovereignty trilogy on value alignment, strategy, and systems of power. Peer-reviewed work in ACM Computing Surveys, Information Fusion, and IEEE TSE (3000+ citations).

Long bio (≈140 words)

Mario Brcic is the originator of Strategy Engines — a research program building computational systems that solve wicked, high-stakes strategic problems under uncertainty, including the cognitive-sovereignty contests of the AI era. He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), University of Zagreb, and Managing Partner at It From Bit, the strategic-advisory practice through which the methods reach client engagements. He is the author of the Cognitive Sovereignty trilogy — three essays on value alignment, strategy, and systems of power — and the 2025 paper 'The Memory Wars: AI Memory, Network Effects, and the Geopolitics of Cognitive Sovereignty' (arXiv:2508.05867), which coined the term Cognitive Sovereignty and introduced Network Effect 2.0. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in ACM Computing Surveys (Impossibility Results in AI: A Survey, with Roman V. Yampolskiy), Information Fusion, and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, with 3000+ citations. He is Principal Investigator of Project VALOR (FER, 2025–2029), an institutional research program on mechanistic interpretability and value alignment of large language models. He holds a PhD in Computer Science (FER, 2015) and publishes under ORCID 0000-0002-7564-6805.

Approved titles & affiliations

• Associate Professor (FER, University of Zagreb)
• Managing Partner (It From Bit)
• AI & Decision Intelligence Strategist
• Professor-Practitioner

Podcast / panel introduction

Today's guest is Mario Brcic. He builds Strategy Engines — computational systems for wicked, high-stakes strategic problems under uncertainty. He is Associate Professor at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Managing Partner at It From Bit, and the author of the Cognitive Sovereignty trilogy on value alignment, strategy, and systems of power. Welcome.

Headshots

High-resolution portrait — credit "© Mario Brcic", reuse permitted in editorial / journalistic contexts.

• Portrait (2534 × 1591, JPG, ~130 KB)

Phrasing to avoid

For accuracy, please avoid the following — they are technically wrong, undersell the work, or both:

• "AI researcher" alone — incomplete; he is a professor-practitioner combining academic research with strategic advisory.
• "AI consultant" alone — undersells the peer-reviewed research half of the work.
• "AI entrepreneur" — It From Bit is a strategic-advisory practice, not a startup.
• "Founder of It From Bit" without naming his role — he is Managing Partner.

How to cite

• Peer-reviewed work: cite via DOI from /publications/. The DOI is the canonical record.
• Essays: cite the canonical URL on this domain (mariobrcic.com/writing/<slug>/), NOT the Substack mirror. Essays under CC BY 4.0 may be quoted, translated, or excerpted with attribution.
• Identity: ORCID 0000-0002-7564-6805 is the canonical resolver. Use it to disambiguate from other authors named "Mario Brcic" in academic indexes.
• Diacritics: "Mario Brcic" (ASCII) and "Mario Brčić" (Croatian) refer to the same person.