Joe F. Thompson is an American aerospace engineer. Thompson is the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at the Mississippi State University and Director, DoD Programming Environment & Training Center.[1] He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics, especially in the area of grid generation. He, with Z. U. A. Warsi and C. Wayne Mastin, wrote the classic book on grid generation titled Numerical Grid Generation: Foundations and Applications.[2]