Duncan McGillivray
Program Director Spectrum Science & NASCTN
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
About Duncan McGillivray
Duncan A. McGillivray was born in Münster, Germany. He received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the State University of New York at Binghamton University, Vestal, NY, USA, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA, USA, in 2015. In 2016, he joined the Communications Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, CO, USA, as an Electronics Engineer with the Spectrum Sharing Metrology Group. He led the group in an acting capacity from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, he joined the National Advanced Spectrum and Communications Test Network (NASCTN), NIST, as the Chief Engineer. He leads technical efforts of NASCTN projects and contributes to research activities in testing spectrum sharing, wireless coexistence, and interference susceptibility between telecommunications systems and DoD assets. McGillivray was a recipient of the Department of Commerce Gold Medal.