Adam A. Smith

Adjunct Professor
Dept. of Mathematical Sciences

Office: Olin 309
E-mail:
Office Hours: W 7-8

Teaching

Classes I am teaching:

CS 277, Computer Architecture & Assembly Language

Previous classes include:

Research

My doctoral work was with Mark Craven, developing algorithms for the EDGE project. My dissertation is here. We developed machine learning methods to discriminate toxins based on gene expression levels. The ultimate goal of the EDGE project is to make the analysis of industrial chemicals faster, cheaper, and more accurate.

Curriculum Vitae

My full CV is here. In addition, here is my research statement and teaching statement.

Publications

A.A. Smith, A. Vollrath, C.A. Bradfield & M. Craven (2008)
Similarity Queries for Temporal Toxicogenomic Expression Profiles
PLoS Computational Biology
A.A. Smith & M. Craven (2008)
Fast Multisegment Alignments for Temporal Expression Profiles
7th Annual International Conference on Computational Systems Bioinformatics
A.A. Smith, A. Vollrath, C.A. Bradfield & M. Craven (2009)
Clustered Alignments of Gene-Expression Time Series Data
ISMB 2009
A.L. Vollrath, A.A. Smith, M. Craven, C.A. Bradfield (2009)
EDGE(3): a web-based solution for management and analysis of Agilent two color microarray experiments.
BMC Bioinformatics 2009

Undergrad Publications

H.B. Snodgrass & A.A. Smith (2000)
The Effects of Meridional motion on the Determination of Rotation by Tracer Tracking
Solar Physics
H.B. Snodgrass & A.A. Smith (2001)
On the Use of Correlations to Determine the Motions and Properties of Mesoscale Magnetic Features in the Solar Photosphere
Astrophysical Journal

Background

I'm from the state of Oregon in the U.S., though I was raised up and down the Pacific coast. I earned my B.A. in Computer Science/Mathematics (combined major) and Physics with Honors from Lewis & Clark College in 1999, and my M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, in 2002 and 2009, respectively.

FAQ

Didn't you write The Wealth of Nations? No, that was some other guy.
How about the U.S. rep from Washington's 9th Congressional District? Nope. Do I look like a politician? I can't stand kissing random babies.
The retired Canadian hockey player? Lord, no. I can barely stay upright on the ice.
The computer science professor at Penn State? Closer, but still no.
Why do you include your middle initial in your name? Isn't that kind of pretentious? Too many Smiths in this world, and too many Adam Smiths. See the previous questions.