Johnathan Smith

Background

About Johnathan Smith

Over the past decade, my career has taken a number of unexpected turns. A Software Engineer by trade, I received my Bachelor's while working alternately as an assistant for Dr. Nathan Jacobs on geometry in Computer Vision and as a summer intern at IBM. Following this, I pursued a doctorate at the University of Florida, studying Approximation Algorithms & Social Network Analysis under Dr. My T. Thai. After a long and interesting journey, I defended my dissertation in March 2020 and graduated May the same year. Over the course of my career, I've explored many of my interests. I have spent many a day designing and implementing approximation algorithms that are efficient not only in theory but also in practice, and have developed a sizeable repertoir of skills and tools to evaluate program performance. At the same time, I have honed my skills in data analysis and visualization, having used both in my evaluation of program performance—and additionally in my independent work on community formation in social networks. I am currently the Lead Software Engineer for Doseform, where we're building a platform to streamline patient prescription handling in a world where health insurance companies routinely require extensive prior authorization forms before covering patient medication costs.