Pamela Thompson

Pamela Thompson is an adjunct lecturer for the School of Data Science and College of Computing and Informatics, and  a member of the Graduate Faculty for UNC Charlotte. Pamela is tenured faculty member at Catawba College in the Department of Mathematics and Computing Sciences, where she serves as an Associate Professor and  the Saleeby Professor of Business. Pamela received her undergraduate MIS and MBA degrees from James Madison University, and her PhD in Computing and Informatics (Computer Science) from UNC Charlotte in 2011. She serves on several boards including the School of Professional Studies advisory board. She is certified to teach AWS foundational and advanced cloud skills, and is active in consulting. Her ongoing research mines proprietary big data from receivers and transmitters recording great white shark presence in nearshore waters off of the Cape Cod coast. The interdisciplinary work involves prominent researchers in the disciplines of weather, great whites, and data science to develop a predictive system for near shore shark presence. The research has been presented as SAS and the University of North Texas. A specialist in teaching, Pamela incorporates active learning in her classes which include DSBA HCIP 6160, DSBA 6100, ITCS 6160 and 6100, ITCS 6162, and more. In 2019 she received the “Excellent in Undergraduate Adjunct Teaching Award” from the College of Computing and Informatics.