Christopher William Pitts

Computer Scientist

Albuquerque, NM

I work at Sandia National Laboratories, where my department focuses on work in autonomous sensing and perception. I do algorithm design and implementation for machine learning and target recognition, as well as ATR assurance. When I’m not working on things I can’t talk about, I enjoy losing board games to my wife, building a programmable smart home, and telling my kids why they should love penguins.

education

University of New Mexico

Class of 2025

PhD of Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology

Class of 2020

Master of Computer Science

Brigham Young University

Class of 2017

Bachelor of Computer Science

selected publications

  1. Multinomial Feature Matching for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Synthetic Aperture Radar
    Christopher Pitts, Devin White, Trilce Estrada, and Gruia-Catalin Roman
    In Automatic Target Recognition XXXVI 2026 National Harbor, Maryland
    PDF
  2. Results from the Application of ODIN to SAR Data, with Mitigation of an Unexpected Multimodality Effect
    Christopher Pitts, and Michelle Hummell
    Automatic Target Recognition Working Group 78 2024 Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, USA
  3. Rapid Iterative Develop And Deploy: Fast Integration On The U-2 Platform
    Todd Pitts, Eric Shields, Henry Qiu, Christopher Pitts, Eva Masingale, and Forest Danford
    Seventh Annual Workshop on Naval Applications of Machine Learning 2023
    Website
  4. Seascape: a Due-Diligence Framework for Algorithm Acquisition
    Christopher Pitts, Forest Danford, Emily Moore, William Marchetto, Henry Qiu, Leon Ross, and Todd Pitts
    In Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Defense Applications IV 2022
    PDF Slides Website
  5. Seascape: An Algorithm Benchmarking Framework
    Christopher Pitts, Forest Danford, Emily Moore, William Marchetto, Henry Qiu, Leon Ross, and Todd Pitts
    Sixth Annual Workshop on Naval Applications of Machine Learning 2022
    Website
  6. The Terminator Has A Bug: AI/ML Assurance
    Christopher Pitts
    2022 Brigham Young University
    Slides