D Smith
Assistant Professor at Clemson University
Clemson, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolD Smith is an Assistant Professor and applied data scientist with a PhD in Physics and a decade of experience turning complex scientific problems into deployable data products. After a career studying theoretical atomic physics and high-performance computing, they transitioned to industry roles where they built and optimized large analytics pipelines, delivering predictive models and a ~50% runtime speedup for healthcare advertising attribution. At Clemson University they moved from Research Associate to Director of Applied Machine Learning and now faculty, blending research rigor with client-facing insights and production-focused engineering. Comfortable across R, ETL, and HPC environments, they excel at translating noisy, multi-source data into actionable decisions and reproducible workflows. An engagement-driven collaborator, D brings both peer-reviewed research pedigree and hands-on pipeline refactoring experience to academic and applied ML problems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.A, Physics, Mathematics, B.S., B.A, Physics, Mathematics at Erskine CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (69)
simulations9
fastai9
python9
gpu9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
equation9
classification9
bayesian9
bayesian-inference8
fasttext8
visualization8
aws-codestar8
physics8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dhudsmith/clean-the-text
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
dhudsmith/qmnnet
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:57 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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