Michelle Thompson
Vice Chair San Diego Chapter Of Information Theory
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Thompson is an interdisciplinary communications and embedded-systems engineer with 11 years of experience and a two-decade arc of work spanning cellular telephony, space and terrestrial microwave systems, and creative hardware-art projects. As co‑founder and current CEO of Open Research Institute and a long‑time IEEE leader in San Diego, she blends technical leadership—information and communications theory, DSP, FPGA and embedded development—with organizational impact in standards, FCC advisory roles, and volunteer engineering programs. Her hands‑on projects range from an AI‑driven electronic pipe organ shown at Burning Man to open‑source 3D‑printable microwave horn antennas and a six‑port modem implementation for Phase 4, reflecting a habit of turning research ideas into tangible, shareable artifacts. Comfortable at the intersection of academia, hobbyist communities, and government, she mentors and convenes technical communities while continuing to prototype novel systems using platforms like FRDM‑K82F and Raspberry Pi.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Information Theory, MS Information Theory at University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of California, San DiegoCourseraBS EET CET, BS EET CET at University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Github Skills (130)
python10
cybersecurity10
visual10
wireless10
dac10
paper10
gnuradio10
gnu10
ecosystem9
signal-processing9
arduino-library9
rtl-sdr9
decode9
communications9
markov8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
phase4space/payload-dmt
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Digital Multiplexing Transponder
Contributions:28 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 month
multiplexingtransponder
phase4space/research-papers
Dec 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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