Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D.

Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. has extensive work experience in various roles in technology and academia. Christopher is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Geopipe, Inc., where they have been involved in building AI to create a detailed digital twin of the Earth. Christopher is also the co-founder and former CEO of the company.

In addition to their role at Geopipe, Dr. Mitchell is a Founder-in-Residence at NYU Entrepreneurial Institute since 2019, where they provide guidance and support to aspiring entrepreneurs. Christopher is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences since 2016.

Prior to their current positions, Dr. Mitchell founded and administered Cemetech, a technology organization. Christopher has also worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a PhD Candidate at New York University, where they focused on storage and computation systems in network fabrics.

Dr. Mitchell has also worked at IBM Research as an R&D Researcher, where they designed and completed a distributed storage and caching system. Christopher also worked as an R&D Intern at Nicira, where they contributed to the design and implementation of a distributed system for software-defined networking.

Earlier in their career, Dr. Mitchell worked as a Research Fellow at SProCom2, where they worked on security issues for FPGAs and implemented highly-parallelized algorithms on GPUs. Christopher also held the position of Head Systems Administrator Emeritus at Cooper Union microLab, where they maintained and oversaw the Electrical Engineering network.

Dr. Mitchell started their career as a Research & Development Programmer Intern at Bloomberg LP, where they focused on programming and software development for financial data delivery software.

Overall, Dr. Christopher Mitchell has a diverse background in technology, research, and entrepreneurship, with expertise in AI, network fabrics, and distributed systems.

Christopher Mitchell, Ph.D. obtained their Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2009. Christopher then pursued a Masters of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering at the same institution, completing it in 2010. Following this, Mitchell attended the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and received their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science in 2015. Additionally, they obtained a Ph.D. certification from New York University in August 2015.