Thompson is the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at the Mississippi State University and Director, DoD Programming Environment & Training Center.
[1] He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics, especially in the area of grid generation.
He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1971.
[4] He is also a member of SIAM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Mississippi Academy of Sciences.
Thompson has authored and edited several books on grid generation: