David Thompson
Research Technologist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Thompson is a research technologist and senior scientist at JPL with 12+ years translating imaging spectroscopy and machine learning research into flown instruments and operational space missions. He has served as instrument scientist for NASA flight spectrometers (including EMIT on the ISS and UCIS-Moon), deputy project scientist for the SBG-VSWIR mission, and leads a spectroscopy and optics technical group that designs sensors and algorithms for planetary and Earth remote sensing. His work combines hyperspectral data science, autonomous science and exploration robotics, with field deployments across five continents, three oceans and two Mars surface missions. A recipient of multiple NASA awards for technology and early-career achievement, he bridges academic rigor (PhD in Robotics) with mission-focused engineering at JPL. Less obvious: he routinely moves ideas from lab-scale ML and vision prototypes into instrument-level implementations that endure the constraints of spaceflight and field campaigns.
12 years of coding experience
M.Sc, Informatics, M.Sc, Informatics at The University of EdinburghB.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Carleton CollegePhD, Robotics, PhD, Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University
Spanish
Github Skills (32)
atmosphere10
routines10
forge10
imaging10
resampling10
hpc-applications10
surface10
emit10
data-format9
python9
conda9
calibration9
geolocation8
mass-spectrometry8
conda-forge8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
davidraythompson/istutor
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Imaging Spectroscopy Tutorial Materials
Contributions:7 commits, 46 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
pythonanalysisimagingopen-sciencespectroscopy
davidraythompson/tikorder
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Tikhonov spectrum fitting, replicating certain features of R. N. Clark's "Tetracorder" approach but with a Bayesian flavor
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 4 months
approachbeastfittingcosmologyflavor
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