David J. Thomson

Queen's University
Kingston, ON, Canada, K7L 3N6
Phone: (613) 533-2426
Fax: (613) 533-2439
E-mail: David Thomson

Education

1971	Ph.D.(EE) Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn	Brooklyn, NY
1967	M.S.(EE) Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn	Brooklyn, NY
1965	B.Sc. (Hon. Math., Sec. major Physics), Acadia University	Wolfville, NS

Experience

	Queens University	Kingston, ON
2001	Professor in Math and Statistics, Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Signal Processing Research interests include analysis of global climate data space physics financial time series
	Bell Telephone Labs, Inc.	Murray Hill, NJ
1983	Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Communications Analysis Research Department Contributed in the following areas of spectrum estimation and communications theory: digital signal processing robust statistics phase tracking and time delay problems modulation theory circuit design seismology, paleoclimatology, and gravitational lensing
1965	Member of the Technical Staff
	worked on multi-pair and coaxial cable development and the WT4 Millimeter Waveguide System responsible for the circuit design of and software for a microprocessor-controlled modem for Rayleigh fading channels in the Advanced Mobile Phone Service project

Current Memberships

and Fellowships

Green Scholar at Scripp's Institution of Oceanography

Steinbeck Visiting Scholar at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Member of the American Geophysical Union

Member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Member of the American Statistical Association

Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Chartered Statistician and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

Canada Research Chair in Statistics and Signal Processing

Professional Engineer (P.Eng.)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Killam Fellow (2009-2011)

Past Memberships

and part-time Responsibilities

Member of the Panel on Sensors and Electron Devices of the Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board

Chairman of Commission C of USNC-URSI

Associate editor for Radio Science

Associate editor for Communications Theory and for Detection and Estimation of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Adjunct professor in the Graduate Department of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Consulted at the Neurological Institute of Columbia University

Visiting Professor at Princeton University (statistical inference)

Visiting Professor at Stanford University (time series)

Guest Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (the Houghton lectures)

Participant at the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge.