Bio
Leslie N. Smith received a combined BS and MS degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of Connecticut in 1976 and a Ph.D. degree in chemical physics from the University of Illinois in 1979.
He is currently at the US Naval Research Laboratory in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on deep learning, machine learning, computer vision, sparse modeling, and compressive sensing. Additionally, his interests includes super resolution, non-linear dimensionality reduction, function approximation, and feature selection.