Christopher Banks
Senior Professional Staff I at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolChristopher Banks is a robotics and AI researcher with a PhD from Georgia Tech and a decade of experience translating control theory and human-swarm interaction research into deployed autonomy for government programs. He currently serves as an AI/ML scientist at Johns Hopkins APL after leading perception, decentralized task allocation, and mission planning efforts at Draper that helped win a $26M DoD CBRN autonomy contract. Comfortable moving between academic testbeds (Robotarium quadrotor integration) and fielded multi-vehicle systems, he blends rigorous control-theoretic foundations with practical autonomy engineering. Christopher’s background in physics and early experimental research informs a quantitative, hands-on approach to prototyping and evaluation, and he has a track record of shepherding complex autonomy components from concept to contract.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree Physics, Bachelor’s Degree Physics at Norfolk State UniversityHigh School, High School at Churchland High School
Github Skills (23)
ros-driver9
partial8
openvr8
wave7
mining7
slam-algorithms7
ros7
crazyflie7
python6
simulation6
scientific-computing4
currency-exchange-rates2
usd2
abstraction1
cmake1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cjbanks/quadcopter-simulator-python
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:5 commits in 7 months
cjbanks/crazyflie-firmware
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
The main firmware for the Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter, Crazyflie Bolt Quadcopter and Roadrunner Positioning Tag.
Contributions:24 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
jtaggarminpositioningroadrunnertflint
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.