
Research Engineer
Chris joined Galois in 2025 as a research engineer whose work spans the areas of formal semantics, runtime verification, and high-level hardware synthesis. He is interested in the practical application of formal methods to make both software and hardware analyzable, trustworthy, and provably correct. Before Galois, he was a principal research scientist at Two Six Technologies and a staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received a PhD from the University of Missouri and a BS from the University of Illinois, both in computer science.