David R. Starks

holds an M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa and a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He has over twenty-five years of experience in advanced wireless system design spanning terrestrial broadcast (ATSC 3.0 and B2X), cellular (5G NR, LTE, HSPA, WCDMA, EDGE, 1xRTT), and Wi-Fi technologies.

Mr. Starks currently serves as Chair of the ATSC S44-2 Specialist Group on the Broadcast-to-Everything (B2X) Radio Access Network (RAN), where he leads the architectural development of the B2X System Discovery & Signaling and Physical Layer specifications. His recent work focuses on aligning B2X with O-RAN disaggregation principles, enabling functional splits, open interfaces, and scheduler frameworks that support multi-vendor interoperability and convergence with 3GPP-based mobile networks.

Throughout his career, Mr. Starks has held senior wireless architecture roles including Principal Communications Systems Architect at Coherent Logix, where he directed ATSC 3.0 physical-layer implementation and 5G-class DSP system design, LTE modem development leadership at BlackBerry, and pre-standard OFDM-MIMO research at Nortel’s Wireless Research Laboratory. He has contributed to 3GPP NR channel coding efforts and has published research in MIMO-OFDM systems and robust speech recognition.