Thomas Jones

Thomas R. Jones (GS’14–M’19) received his B.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta in 2007, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta in 2019.
From 2008 to 2013, he worked in industry as a project engineer for Tracer Industries Canada Ltd., and in 2013 joined the Microwave to Millimeter-wave (M2M) group as a research assistant at the University of Alberta. From 2019 to 2021, he was a visiting NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Purdue University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. He is currently a Senior Research Associate at Purdue University. His research interests include microwave, millimeter-wave, and sub-THz design for high-speed and high-power communication systems and radar, reconfigurable RF front ends and tunable filters, and the microfabrication of on-chip millimeter-wave devices.
Dr. Jones was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship, the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) Graduate Student Scholarship, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, and the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. He was a recipient of the First Place Excellence in Nanofabrication Award at the 2017 CMC TEXPO Student Design Competition held in Montreal and was awarded the 2023 Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence by CMC Microsystems. Dr. Jones served as Finance Chair for the IEEE 2019 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering and served in various other professional roles, including Vice-Chair for the award-winning IEEE Northern Canada Section AP-S/MTT-S Joint Chapter. He is currently serving as the IEEE MTT-S MGA Regional Coordinator for R7 Canada.