Samuel M Smith

Proven researcher in artificial intelligence, automated reasoning, and intelligent control. My greatest strength is a comprehensivist approach to intelligent systems design. I was a pioneer in the development of reinforcement learning algorithms for optimization. Early in my career I was responsible for the multi-disciplinary design of autonomous underwater vehicle systems. Thus I learned to see systems holistically. The more complex the problem, the greater my relative ability to solve it. I am also an avid disciple of Lean Startup methodologies with extensive experience running businesses as an entrepreneur and intrapreneur. Inside the university I supervised 20 engineers and a dozen graduate students and an annual budget of over $ 2 million. I have founded two different companies. My passion is finding solutions that benefit from computational intelligence. I have also been actively involved in open source software development. I am the originator of Ioflo, an open source flow based programming framework. I am the architect of OpenReputation.net, a blockchain based reputation system. I am also the designer and primary developer of RAET (Reliable Asynchronous Event Transport) protocol which are at the core of the new SaltStack. I was also the chair of the CEA working group on the ANSI/EIA 852.1 network protocol standard and a major contributor to both the ANSI/EIA 852 and 709.x protocols. I have over 25 years experience in a variety of disciplines including computational intelligence, machine learning, network automation, autonomic systems, cloud based computing, intelligent control, embedded systems design, autonomous vehicles and blockchain technology. I have over 120 publications in the fields of intelligent control, survivable network automation, autonomous systems, simulation, computational search, and expert systems, including seven book chapters, 20 journal papers, and 100 refereed conference papers.