Summit Speaker

Dr. Christopher T. Goodin received his B.S. in mathematics and physics from Mississippi College in 2004, and M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University in 2006 and 2008, respectively. From 2008-2017, he worked with the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, MS, developing physics-based simulations of ground vehicles, sensors, and robotics and serving as the lead developer for the Virtual Autonomous Navigation Environment (VANE) and the Computational Research and Engineering Acquisition Tools and Environments for Ground Vehicles (CREATE-GV). Since 2017, he has been a research faculty with the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), Mississippi State University, specializing in the study of autonomous ground vehicles. At CAVS, Dr. Goodin is the lead developer of the MSU Autonomous Vehicle Simulator (MAVS), a simulation library for autonomous ground vehicles, and the NATURE off-road autonomy software stack.