David Pike is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer

Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He obtained his PhD in

1996 from Auburn University and his BMath in 1992 from the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Pike has been voluntarily coordinating the Pike Surname DNA Project

since its inception in 2004. His interests in genetic genealogy also

include mitochondrial DNA, especially mtDNA Haplogroup T. He is the author of an article on an earlier study of Haplogroup T that was published in JoGG in Spring 2006. He is presently leading a new study of Haplogroup T using full sequence data.