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Philip W. Smith, Ph.D.
philip.smith@ttu.edu
Biographical Sketch
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
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