Rate My Professor Pamela Thompson

Pamela Thompson, Ph.D., serves as Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Mathematical & Computing Sciences at Catawba College, affiliated with the Ralph W. Ketner School of Business. She earned her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2011, an M.B.A. from James Madison University, and a B.B.A. in Management Information Systems from James Madison University. Her academic interests encompass applications development, web design, systems consulting, systems design, app development and coding, computer science, data mining, machine learning, knowledge discovery with databases, data analytics, data integration, e-commerce, entrepreneurship with technology, information systems, Internet of Things, beacons, near field communication, programming, social media, and women in business. Thompson conducts ongoing research mining proprietary big data from receivers and transmitters to develop a predictive recommender system for great white shark presence in nearshore waters off the Cape Cod coast, involving interdisciplinary collaboration with experts in weather, marine biology, and data science. Her work has been presented at the SAS Deep Learning Symposium and the University of North Texas.