Background
He was born on 28 August 1980. He grew up in Rangely, Colorado.
He was born on 28 August 1980. He grew up in Rangely, Colorado.
Graduated simultaneously from high school and from Colorado Northwestern Community College with an AS degree in 1998 He majored in physics and mathematics at Harvard University, and graduated with a Bachelor in 2002.
After working as a development engineer at the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory from 2002 to 2004, Parsons entered graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley in astronomy, receiving his Doctor of Philosophy in 2009 while holding a predoctoral research position at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Parsons returned to University of California Berkeley on an National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in 2009. He was hired as an assistant professor in the Astronomy Department and in the Radio Astronomy Laboratory at University of California Berkeley in 2011.He specializes in digital signal processing instrumentation.
He was one of the founding members of the Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics (CASPER).