Background
Gillis, James Thompson was born on August 30, 1956 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Floyd Eugene and Nell Louise (Clark) Gillis.
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James Thompson Gillis
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James Thompson Gillis, American aerospace engineer, mathematician. Achievements include research into control of dynamic systems, system identification, distributed systems and partial differential equations, estimation, filtering and stochastic processes, Fourier analysis and wavelet theories, navigation systems, NACSTAR space and launch systems. Recipient Space Frontier Foundation award.
Education
Bachelor of Science in System Science, Washington University, St. Louis, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, 1988.
Career
Member technical staff, Hughes Aircraft Space & Communications, El Segundo, California, 1979-1983; engineering specialist, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, since 1989. Visiting research associate Systems Research Center, U. Maryland., College Park, 1990-1991.
Achievements
Membership
Board directors Lafayette (Indiana) Crisis Center, 1974, Indiana Civil Liberties Union, Lafayette, 1976. Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, American Civil Liberties Union, American Mathematics Society, Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Mathematics Association American, Institute Navigation.
Connections
Married Jenanne Leigh Murphy, October 14, 1989 (divorced April 1995).
