Academic career
Tom Parks received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell in 1961. He worked for General Electric for two years, then returned to Cornell to earn his masters and PhD degrees in 1964 and 1967, respectively. Upon graduation he joined the electrical engineering faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he began teaching and working in the nascent field of digital signal processing. In 1972 he and James H. McClellan, James McClellan published Parks-McClellan filter design algorithm, an influential paper on digital filter design. In 1986 Parks returned to Cornell, where he spent the remainder of his career and retired as emeritus professor. Parks received multiple awards based on his research focused on digital signal processing with its application to signal theory, multirate systems, interpolation, and filter design. He co-authored more than 150 books and papers.Affiliations and awards
* Senior Fulbright Program, Fulbright fellowship (1973) * Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award (1973) * IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award (1980) * IEEE Fellow, Life Fellow, IEEE (1982) * Third Millennium Medal of the IEEE (2000) * IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2004), together with James H. McClellan * National Academy of Engineering (2010)References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Parks, Thomas W. American electrical engineers Fellow Members of the IEEE 2020 deaths 1939 births Cornell University College of Engineering alumni Cornell University faculty General Electric people Rice University faculty People from Buffalo, New York Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Engineers from New York (state) Fulbright alumni