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Prior to co-founding WTI, Dr. Smith was the Director of the Numerical Software division at IMSL. In this capacity he was the Technical Team Leader for the flagship product of IMSL, namely the IMSL Fortran Mathematical and Statistical Libraries. As such his responsibilities ran the spectrum of optimizing high performance code, supervising the production of documentation and code, as well as selecting new abilities to appear in the Libraries. Dr. Smith also served as the Technical Team Leader and Program Manager for the IMSL C/Math Library. Dr. Smith is the author of over 100 technical papers in the areas of splines, numerical linear algebra, approximation and optimization. He has served as a consultant for IBM, General Motors, NASA, and White Sands Missile Range. He is a member of the Center for Approximation Theory at Texas A&M University. Dr. Smith received his Bachelor of Arts (with High Distinction) at the University of Virginia in Mathematics. He received his Master of Science and Ph.D. in Mathematics at Purdue University. His dissertation topic concerned splines on the real line. Dr. Smith has been a tenured faculty member and Professor at both Texas A&M University and Old Dominion University. Selected Publications Density of Translates of Radial Functions on Compact Sets, (with F. Narcowich and J. D. Ward) Approximation Theory VIII, Charles K. Chui and Larry L. Schumaker (eds.), to appear. Parametric approximation of data using ODR splines, (with S. Martin) Computer Aided Geometric Design, Vol. 11, 1994, 2-21. Nonlinear eigenvalue approximation, (with W. F. Moss and J. D. Ward) Numerische Mathematik, Vol. 52, 1988, 365-375. Decay rates for inverses of band matrices, (with S. Demko, and W. F. Moss) Math. Comp., Vol. 43, Number 168, Oct. 1984, 491-499. Research Interests Computational Finance Approximation by Radial Basis Functions Global Optimization Constrained curve and surface fitting | 