MATTHEW S. SMITH
Provo, UT 84604, USA
801-830-9005 Mobile
smitty@byu.edu
http://dml.cs.byu.edu/matthewsmith
Computer Science PhD Candidate at Brigham Young University
Research: Social Capital in Online Communities, Affinities and Social Networks, Personalization, Recommendation Systems and Collaborative Filtering, Business Intelligence (Web Analytics and Statistical Methods), Machine Learning, and Web Mining.
== WORK EXPERIENCE ==
2004-Present
Data Mining Lab Graduate Researcher (Brigham Young University)
PhD Candidate, Social Capital in Online Communities
MS Thesis, Implicit Affinity Networks (IAN)
Research Interests: Social Networks, Business Intelligence, Web Personalization
Advisor: Dr. Christophe Giraud-Carrier
2008-Present
Founder (WebStartupGroup.com)
Technology-business group that brings together diverse people interested in starting new Web focused ventures. The group meets
regularly to discuss and make Web Startups come to life. There are currently 200+ individuals participating in the group. 4000+ followers on Twitter.
2006-Present
Co-Creator (SiteSays)
Website and browser extension that allows you to post and view comments about sites as you surf. It is a novel way to collaborate and interact online.
Currently: 40,000+ user registrations, creating ~5,000 daily page views and ~1,000 daily visits.
2001-2004
Graduate Studies Webmaster (Brigham Young University)
Designed, implemented, and maintained the following BYU Graduate Studies websites:
<gradstudies.byu.edu> <www.byu.edu/gradstudies/gsa> <etd.byu.edu>
Trained Graduate Coordinators and Secretaries.
2004
Web Designer (BullySports)
Specialized in web design and layout using XHTML, DHTML, CSS, Flash, and Photoshop.
2000-Present, 1997-1998
Owner and Creator (LDSMissions.com)
LDSMissions.com is a community devoted to LDS Missions and Missionaries
22,000+ missionaries registered.
2000-Present
Freelance Website Development (Smithworx)
Creator of the following websites: online- <www.ths97.com> <www.ponchillo.com>
<www.amandakoerner.com> <www.superjoymusic.com> offline- <www.brimleyross.com>
<www.sureblast.com> <www.ilovesuite13.com> <www.landlordsally.com>
1998-2000
Volunteer Missionary (Portugal Porto Mission)
Taught religious principles, performed community service, led fellow missionaries, and
trained new missionaries.
1996-1997
Novell SuperLab Intern (Novell)
Fixed and tested computers in the SuperLab (over 1900 individual PC's).
== EDUCATION ==
Brigham Young University:
Computer Science PhD Candidate (Expected Graduation: December 2009)
Computer Science MS, December 2006
Computer Science BS, December 2004
Timpview High School: GPA: 3.78, Student Body Secretary, April 1997
== RELEVANT COURSEWORK ==
Data Mining
Information Retrieval
Computer Security
Machine Learning
Data Communications, Networking
Database Modeling Concepts
Software Systems
User Interfaces
Operating Systems Design
Computer Architecture
Algorithm Analysis
Advanced Programming
Programming Language Concepts
Foundations for Computer Science I & II
Computer Organization
Physics I: Newtonian Mechanics
Physics II: Waves, Optics, etc.
Physics III: Electricity and Magnetism
Calculus, Linear Algebra
Mathematical Statistics, Graduate Statistics
== RELATED SKILLS & INTERESTS ==
Languages:
C, C++, CSS, Cold Fusion, DHTML, HTML/XHTML, Java, JavaScript, Linux, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, PostgreSQL, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, SQL, XUL, and XML.
Software:
Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Access, Excel, Explorer, NetMeeting, Messenger, Outlook, PowerPoint, Remote Desktop, and Word. VMWare. Eclipse, NetBeans, Vim.
Certifications:
CompTIA Network+ Certification (2004)
Hobbies:
Banjo, Guitar, Soccer, Basketball, Business, Golf, and Art.
== PUBLICATIONS ==
* Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., and Purser, N. (2009). Implicit Affnity Networks and Social Capital. Information Technology and Management Journal. Springer.
* Smith, M. (2008). Social Capital in Online Communities. In PIKM '08: Proceeding of the 2nd PhD workshop on Information and knowledge management, pages 17-24, New York, NY, USA. ACM. (Alternate Download Location)
* Smith, M., Purser, N. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2008). Social Capital in the Blogosphere: A Case Study. In Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, K. Lerman et al. (Eds.), Technical Report SS-08-06, AAAI Press, 93-97.
* Giraud-Carrier, C. and Smith, M. (2008). Web Mining: Stages of Knowledge Discovery in e-Commerce Sites. In Wang, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 2nd Edition, 1830-1834.* Lee, J. won, Lin, Y. H., and Smith, M. (2008) Dependency Mining on the 2005-06 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data. American Medical Information Association (AMIA'08), Washington D.C, United States.
* Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C. and Judkins, B. (2007). Implicit Affinity Networks. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, 1-6.
* Smith, M. (2007). Implicit Affinity Networks. Brigham Young University.
* Smith, M., Wenerstrom, B., Giraud-Carrier, C., Lawyer, S. and Liu, W. (2007). Personalizing e-Commerce with Data Mining. In E-Service Intelligence: Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Lu, J., Ruan, D. and Zhang, G. (Eds.), Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 37, Springer, Chapter 12.
* Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2006). Genealogical Affinity Networks. 6th Annual Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research.
* Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2005). Stages of Knowledge Discovery in Websites. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on E-Service Intelligence at the Eighth Joint Conference on Information Sciences.