COL Christopher Lowrance

COL Christopher Lowrance is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a senior research scientist in the Robotics Research Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. A native of southern Indiana near Louisville, Kentucky, he commissioned into the U.S. Army Signal Corps after graduating from the Virginia Military Institute as an ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate. His early company-grade assignments were in Germany with the 32nd Signal Battalion, 22nd Signal Brigade, and V Corps Artillery, and he deployed to Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom I during that tour.

After returning to the United States, COL Lowrance commanded D Company, 551st Signal Battalion, and D Company, 369th Signal Battalion at Fort Gordon, Georgia. He later became a network systems engineer (Functional Area 26A) and joined the EECS Department after earning his master’s degree. Following his initial teaching assignment, he served as the chief of enterprise operations at the Regional Cyber Center–Southwest Asia in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. After that deployment, he earned his Ph.D. and returned to West Point, where he served as the deputy director of the electrical engineering program and became one of the founding members of the Robotics Research Center.

Following his second tour at West Point, COL Lowrance joined the Army’s newly activated Artificial Intelligence Task Force in Pittsburgh—later renamed the AI Integration Center—serving as the unit’s chief autonomous systems engineer. In that role, he coordinated robotics and autonomous systems research and development across Army Futures Command and partners in the Department of Defense, academia, and industry. He later graduated with honors from the U.S. Army War College and returned to West Point as an academy professor (FA47).