Chris Schmidt

Machine Learning Engineer, HII Mission Technologies

I build AI systems that are checked before they are trusted: the consequential decision stays in deterministic code, and model output is independently checked or measured before it is relied on. Every result is measured, including the ones that came back negative.

Five years at HII Mission Technologies across data engineering, software engineering, and ML engineering. Currently supporting the F-35 Joint Program Office's data modernization initiative on AWS GovCloud. Active security clearance. Formerly worked on the FortisAI project analyzing large and disparate streams of multimodal data for further analytic efforts.

MS in Applied Mathematics (Towson University, 2021). Pursuing an MS in AI Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, part-time (expected May 2029). The projects here are self-directed builds, several prompted by JHU coursework.

Chris Schmidt
🎓 MS AI Engineering (in progress), Johns Hopkins
📐 MS Applied Mathematics
🔒 Active Security Clearance
✅ Verified Agents & Evaluation
👁️ Computer Vision & Geospatial ML

Currently exploring

Deterministic gates on LLM and agent output built
Computer vision with calibrated, verifiable measurement built
Evaluator-gated agents over geospatial data building

Selected Projects

Four systems built on one idea: deterministic decisions, with AI output independently checked or measured. Each is written up as a case study with problem context, approach, and measured outcomes.

SiteWatch AI - Computer Vision Safety Monitoring, Verified by an RLM Agent

Sep 2026 Featured

Deterministic computer vision (YOLO11s + ByteTrack, calibrated to floor meters) fires forklift-proximity, zone-dwell and speed rules on every frame. A Prime Agent RLM verifies each firing by running Python over the raw tracks, and a plain-code gate recomputes its numbers before anything is recorded. Live demo replays the real pipeline output and agent sessions.

Live demo (GitHub Pages)
Agent eval: 26/30 first pass; ~$0.002 per incident
Gate caught a real agent misclassification

Grey-Resolve - Degraded-Media Entity Resolution, Evaluated Honestly

Oct 2026 Featured

Face detection, quality gating, embedding and retrieval over degraded media, then a test of whether context can break near-ties between look-alike identities. Per-condition ROC/FMR/FNMR sweeps show where it breaks; the central fusion hypothesis was tested at scale and is not supported. Live Resolution Console on GitHub Pages.

Live demo (GitHub Pages)
FMR@FNMR=1% 0.873 at EER 0.046 (downsample x0.1)
Fusion claim not supported at scale, reported as found

Meridian - Agent Harness for AI-Assisted Development

May 2026 - Present Featured

An agent harness that enforces rules an AI coding agent cannot talk its way past: when a gate check fails, a shell hook blocks the next action, and an independent evaluator subagent scores each gate in a fresh context so the agent never grades its own work.

Self-grading gap closed: 5.5 -> 2.5 (-3.0 pts)
240 assertions across 18 suites
Dogfooded on 2 production projects

Hard Power Intelligence - Markets Intelligence Engine

Jun 2026 - Present Featured

Turns SEC filings, federal contract awards, and energy and regulatory releases into source-attributed, confidence-graded briefings across AI infrastructure, defense, and energy. An eval gate checks for fabrication before publish, and entity resolution links each event to the company behind it. Live and publishing daily.

Live: Next.js + FastAPI + Supabase
Entity resolver: 1.0 precision / 1.0 recall
3 desks, 4 live sources, daily cron