Jonathan Smith
Professor Of Instruction at Temple University College of Science and Technology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Smith is a multidisciplinary physical chemist and data scientist with nine years in higher education leadership and a 30+-publication track record studying highly excited molecules, open-shell radicals, and their time-resolved vibrational signatures. As Professor of Instruction at Temple University and Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo, he merges ab initio dynamics, quasi-classical trajectories, and spectroscopy with machine learning (neural nets and Gaussian processes) to extract mechanistic insight from experimental and computational data. He codes research tools in Python, Ruby, and Java to bridge open-source and commercial software, and has a strong record mentoring undergraduates into competitive PhD, MD, and industry roles. Beyond traditional spectroscopy, he applies photonics and signal processing to collect novel datasets and leverages NLP and broader data-science methods to interrogate scientific problems. Known for building collaborative international research programs and integrating computational chemistry into curriculum and infrastructure, he brings both deep disciplinary expertise and practical implementation experience.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Physical Chemistry at Wesleyan UniversityBS Chemistry, BS Chemistry at Bates College
French, Norwegian
Github Skills (39)
bids10
image-processing9
brain-imaging9
preprocessing9
neuroimaging9
mri9
neuroscience8
quality-assurance8
datasets8
machine-learning7
react7
dicom7
graphql6
diffusion-mri6
crossword5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
DVSneuro/my-cv
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
DVSneuro/smithlab_manual
Jan 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
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