Peter C. Fontana, Ph.D. is a Computer Scientist in the AI Technologies Group within ITL. In ITL, he currently leads the NIST Generative AI Code Challenge and is a technical contributor in the NIST Generative AI Program. Past projects include serving as a technical contributor to the NIST efforts in the DARPA Knowledge-directed AI Reasoning Over Schemas (KAIROS) program and the NIST Data Science Evaluation Series. Peter holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park, whose dissertation research was in model checking (formal methods). He holds a Bachelor of Science and Engineering in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.