Elizabeth Smith, PhD

Elizabeth Smith, PhD

Dr. Elizabeth Smith is a biophysicist and data scientist who is passionate about using data and algorithms to improve lives and make work more efficient. She spent the past five years at a geospatial analytics startup where she applied artificial intelligence / machine learning to build software products from terabytes of satellite imagery. Her postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF and the Advanced Light Source focused on developing novel methods to image, reconstruct, co-align and analyze features within three-dimensional tomographic reconstructions. Dr. Smith has a PhD in biophysics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a bachelors in physics from Pomona College.

• Primary area of quantitative expertise: Computer Vision
• Applied domain: Medical
• Data domain: Imaging