Abraham Smith

Abraham Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Stout, Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Duke University in 2009 and held postdoctoral research positions at Fordham University and McGill University.

Dr. Smith specializes in using geometric insight to reformulate open-ended data-analysis and machine-learning questions into firm mathematical theories, and then optimize those mathematical theories into concrete and efficient code. Dr. Smith’s approach stems from a background in geometric differential equations and integrable systems—systems that predict changes and interactions in the physical world. At McGill University, Dr. Smith explained the high-dimensional structure of these systems through the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). Dr. Smith is an avid scientific programmer and Linux administrator with long-time expertise across the entire software stack, and he uses these skills to design and implement parallel computing infrastructure for research code and production workflows at GDA.