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 years of experience in real-time physical-layer development across terrestrial broadcast (ATSC 3.0/B2X), cellular (3GPP NR/LTE/HSPA/WCDMA/EDGE/1xRTT), and Wi-Fi systems. Mr. Starks’ recent work focuses on RAN system architecture and design, including System Discovery and Signaling, Physical Layer Protocol development, and end-to-end integration of the emerging ATSC B2X standard.

Mr. Starks serves as Chair of the ATSC S44-2 Specialist Group on B2X Radio Access Network (RAN), leading the development of the B2X System Discovery & Signaling and Physical Layer specifications. His industry career includes roles such as Principal Communications Systems Architect directing wireless system design for ATSC 3.0, Wi-Fi, and 5G-class DSP implementations at Coherent Logix, leadership of 4G/3G modem development at BlackBerry, and pre-standard OFDM-MIMO prototype research at Nortel’s Wireless Research Lab. He is a co-author of contributions to 3GPP NR channel coding and has published work in MIMO-OFDM and speech recognition in adverse environments.