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Alex Thornton is an American engineer and research scientist at Lockheed Martin corporation since 2019.

Early life and Education
A native of upstate New York, Alex Thornton attended Spencerport High School in Spencerport, New York, where he was a member of the varsity swim team. While at Spencerport, he played trombone in the school jazz ensemble, attained the rank of Eagle Scout, and was inducted into the town youth hall of fame.

Thornton graduated Summa Cum Laude from Binghamton University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 2019, and received his M.S. also in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in 2022 while working for Lockheed Martin. . While at Columbia, he studied data driven computing and analytics, and conducted research uncovering music genre similarity using a modified version of the PageRank graph algorithm.

Employment history

 * Lockheed Martin
 * 2019-2020 Systems engineer associate, advanced airborne electronic warfare
 * 2020-2021 Engineering Leadership Development Program
 * 2021-2022 Senior research engineer, advanced signal processing and machine learning