Dr. Gundars Bergmanis-Korāts leads the AI Laboratory at the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence in Riga. He and his team work on how artificial intelligence reshapes the information environment and the implications for those defending it. He joined the COE in 2020 as a researcher, and in 2023 achieved the role of Principal Scientist. Since the start of 2026, he has led the AI Lab. His research focuses on how LLMs behave and break, on how disinformation is automated, on how platforms can (and cannot) detect inauthentic engagement, and on which kinds of data infrastructures a sovereign strategic communications capability requires. Gundars' recent publications dig into LLM performance gaps in small languages, the rise of AI-powered disinformation machines, and interoperable data processing for strategic information environments. Before NATO StratCom COE, Gundars spent years as a project manager, programmer, and lead researcher working in computer vision, machine learning, and signal and image processing. He holds a PhD from the Université de Lorraine, where his work focused on multichannel signal processing and analysis.