Kevin T. Pitts

In March 2021, Pitts became chief research officer at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory. His responsibilities there include oversight of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. He participated in the top quark discovery in 1995, and served on the Long Baseline Neutrino Committee.

He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois in 1999, becoming Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs in 2010. In 2014 he became Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Engineering. Pitts is Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education.

Pitts began his research in high-energy physics at Fermilab in 1994. At the Fermilab Tevatron he investigated heavy-flavor physics and participated in the CDF experiment Higgs boson searches. Pitts is a member of the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab.

Kevin T. Pitts (born 1965) is an American high energy particle physicist. In addition to his faculty appointment at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in 2021 he was appointed chief research officer at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory. His research interests have included the CDF experiment and the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab.

Kevin Todd Pitts, born in Indiana in 1965, is the son of William and Beverley Pitts. He earned a B.A. in physics and mathematics at Anderson University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from the University of Oregon. He completed his dissertation in 1994.