Highlighted Work Experience

• Staff Software Engineer, Daedalus Cyber (2026 — present)
• Consulting Research Associate, Georgia Tech Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Lab (2023 — present)
  • Consulting industry researcher exploring agentic AI decision-making for national security and defense.
• Principal Consultant, Topp Technical Consulting (2020 — present)
  • Provide reduced/no-fee independent consulting on cybersecurity, information security, compliance, risk management, and business continuity for small businesses and professional practices.
• Cyber Warfare Officer, US Army (2016 — 2023)
  • Technical leader responsible for planning, executing, and overseeing offensive cyberspace and intelligence operations in support of national security objectives across tactical, operational, and strategic levels.
• Military Intelligence Officer, US Army (2014 — 2015)
  • Tactical intelligence officer and information collection manager responsible for delivering timely and accurate intelligence analysis.
  • Led red teaming for planning, wargames, and operational decisionmaking.

Education

• MS Operations Research (Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024)
• BS Operations Research with Honors Thesis and Terrorism Studies Minor (United States Military Academy, 2014)

Certifications/Qualifications

• Certified Business Continuity Planner #98470, Disaster Recovery Institute (DRI) International
• Industrial Engineer Intern #4769, Delware Society of Professional Engineers

Publications

• Glenn Matlin, Isaac Song, Yixiong Hao, Parv Mahajan, Evan Montoya, Ryan Bard, Stuart R. Topp, Anthony Wen-Ming Zang, Mohammed Rehan Parwani, Soham Shetty, Mark Riedl (2026). Shall We Play a Game? Language Models for Open-ended Wargames.
  • Social Simulation with LLMS: Fidelity in Applications @ COLM 2026. Available from openreview.net or arxiv.org.
  • Wordplay: When Language Meets Games @ EMNLP 2025. Available from wordplay-workshop or arXiv.org.
• Ali Maher, Cody Kester, Stuart Topp, Wesley Trumbauer (2014). Generating geo-referenced terrain for Army simulation programs using RUGUD. Posters ’14: Proceedings of the 2014 SpringSim Poster Session. Available from acm.org.

Selected White Papers & Research

• Grodzinsky, Nathan, Destina Surin, Stu Topp (2024). Battlefield Command and Control Systems Resilience in an Electromagnetic-Contested Environment.
• Stu Topp (2014). Simulating Cyber Conflict Effects on Computer Networks with Python.
• Matthew Moellering, Stu Topp (2014). Wargaming Cyber Conflict Effects on a Stryker Infantry Company.

“Fun” Fact(s)

• I’m a cited source on Wikipedia!

Contact

• +1 (803) 956-0109 (Call/Text/Signal/WhatsApp)
• stu@stutopp.net
• LinkedIn.com/in/stutopp