Institution/Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Email Address: christophesc@ornl.gov

Committee(s): Collaborator

Dr. Carter Christopher is Section Head for Human Dynamics R&D and Distinguished Research Scientist in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Geospatial Science and Human Security Division. Dr. Christopher leads the Human Geography, Location Intelligence, Built Environment Characterization, and Geoinformatics Engineering research groups at the lab, helping to solve national- and global-scale challenges for Energy Security and National Security. Dr. Christopher also serves as ORNL Program Manager on IARPA’s HAYSTAC program, Principal Investigator for DOE’s Center for Alternative Synchronization and Timing, and Principal Investigator for NNSA’s SecuRoute project. Prior to joining ORNL, Dr. Christopher was Head of Geospatial at an aerospace start-up, and he had a distinguished 12-year career in the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC). Dr. Christopher spent more than 10 years at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) where he led a range of geospatial modernization programs, including ML/AI-driven object detection and mapping, geospatial cloud modernization for the IC, data science and advanced geospatial analysis, and global GIS training. Dr. Christopher closed his Federal career at the US State Department as Deputy to the Geographer of the United (Christopher continued) States, where he helped stand up the Department’s enterprise GIS and led human geography and humanitarian mapping initiatives. Prior to Federal service, Dr. Christopher held analyst and project management roles in the geospatial private sector. Carter has a PhD in Earth Systems and Geoinformation Science, and a MS in Geography and Remote Sensing.