David Mitchell has been a member of the NMSU faculty in the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineeringsince 2015, and he was promoted to associate professor in 2023. His research interests are in wireless communications, with an emphasis on data compression and information theory. 

“As a society, we have a big data problem, in the sense that we are generating data much faster than our communications infrastructure can support,” he said. “Network-aware data compression techniques can help to reduce this bottleneck by determining the similarities in the structure and content of data, as well as how the users are connected to one another.”

In 2022, Mitchell received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award. The CAREER award is one of the most prestigious NSF awards and aims to support early-career faculty.

“Being able to bring state-of-the-art research problems into the classroom is one of my favorite aspects of working at NMSU,” Mitchell said. “We have a great environment for our upper-level students to collaborate on real-world problems.”

Prior to NMSU, Mitchell was a member of the faculty at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom.