Thomas R. Morgan

Dr. Morgan is a Senior Scientist at the Future of Computing Institute (FOCI) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He holds BS and MS degrees in Geology and Geophysics from Rensselaer and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Houston.

He has 50 years of experience teaching, researching, designing and coding scientific/technical applications in remote sensing disciplines including: active source seismic and acoustics, medical ultrasonics, electromagnetic and sonic non-destructive testing, radio astronomy, LiDAR and optical imagery.

He joined FOCI’s forerunner, the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications (IDEA) at its founding in 2014 and currently conducts research in computer vision, and quantum computing. Previously at RPI he employed LiDAR and acoustic backscatter remote sensing data on multiple projects for the Jefferson Project at Lake George directed at forest, watershed, and lakebed evaluation and monitoring. He has taught courses in data analytics, machine learning and geophysics.

His career has spanned commercial, academic and governmental organizations including IBM, Schlumberger, The Colorado School of Mines, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. He started his programming career on an IBM System 360 Mainframe while an undergrad at RPI. This was followed by FPS Vector processors on DEC and Raytheon systems, CDC Cyber 720 and 205 vector computers, IBM System 370 Mainframes then DEC, Silicon Graphics and IBM RISC processors. He finally moved on to parallel application development for large scale cluster platforms. He is an experienced python, r, C/C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, and Assembler programmer.