Biography: Dr. Christopher R. Anderson is the Theory Division Chief and Acting Measurements Division Chief for the NTIA Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS). He joined ITS in 2023 after 16 years on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he founded the Wireless Measurements Group and led spectrum and propagation measurement campaigns spanning ~300 MHz–60 GHz. His research includes widely cited propagation models for spectrum sharing in cluttered environments, with applications to coexistence among radar, commercial broadband, and passive systems.

Dr. Anderson has served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He chairs the UAV and V2V Channel Modeling Subgroup within the IEEE Mobile Communication Network Standards Committee and serves as Secretary/Chair-Elect of the U.S. National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). A Licensed Professional Engineer in Colorado, his current interests include advancing spectrum coexistence techniques and extending reliable wireless coverage in rural and underserved regions.

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