Jon Wallace was born in Minnesota and has lived in Wisconsin, Virginia, Florida, Colorado, Utah, Austria, Germany, and Pennsylvania. He is married to Gina Wallace and is the father of three children: William, Anne, and Josef. He studied Electrical Engineering at Brigham Young University from 1997 to 2002. He has worked as an electrical engineer with Novell, Inc., Lucent Technologies, and Wavetronix, LLC. He served as a spanish-speaking missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from 1991 to 1993 in Miami, Florida. He has also been a professor of electrical engineering at Jacobs University Bremen (Germany) and Lafayette College.
Jon’s hobbies include electronics, flying airplanes as a private pilot, building and improving flight simulators, model aircraft, and playing musical instruments. He has research interests in millimeter-wave communications, multi-antenna systems, radar, physical layer security, and unmanned aircraft systems.