David Smith

David Smith, PhD, earned his BS in Physics and BA in Astronomy at The University of Texas at Austin before heading to Harvard University for an MA in Astronomy. He returned to UT-Austin to finish his PhD in Astrophysics, where he was National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow and Harrington Doctoral Fellow. After doing postdoctoral research in plasma astrophysics at the University of Arizona for two years, Dr. Smith came to Vanderbilt as a medical physics resident in radiation oncology. In 2010, he became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, and was appointed Research Assistant Professor in 2014. His research is focused new techniques and applications for MRI in cancer imaging, in particular mathematical methods such as compressed sensing and machine learning.