Sam Smith

Qualification

(b)(iii) The Governor appoints: One member representing private industry in technology

Bio

Samuel M. Smith, Ph.D., has a deep interest in decentralized identity and reputation systems as well as the authenticity, confidentiality, and privacy implications of the associated technology. Samuel received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1991. He then spent 10 years at Florida Atlantic University, eventually reaching full professor status. He has conducted pioneering research in automated reasoning, machine learning, autonomous vehicle systems, and decentralized identity and reputation. He has over 100 refereed publications in these areas and was the principal investigator on more than $25 million in federally funded research projects, both in academia and as a private defense contractor. Dr. Smith has been an active participant in the development of open standards for network and identity protocols. He is also a serial entrepreneur. Dr. Smith is a commissioner on the Utah State Privacy Commission. He is the chairman of the ToIP Foundation KeriSuite working group. He is also co-founder and co-chair of the KERI Foundation.