Dr. J. C. Smart (smart@georgetown.edu) is a Research Professor at Georgetown University where he serves as Chief Scientist of its AvesTerra Initiative for the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research. In this role, Dr. Smart is responsible for the technical leadership and strategic oversight of Georgetown’s multidisciplinary, integrative science activity to build an extreme-scale knowledge representation of the planet to address issues of sustainability, global health, and global security.
Starting in 2011, Dr. Smart transitioned to Georgetown from Raytheon where he had served as the Chief Technology Officer for the Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS) business. In this prior role, Dr. Smart was responsible for managing advanced technology research, development and partnerships for the Intelligence Community and Homeland Defense/Security sector. Prior to joining Raytheon in October, 2007, Dr. Smart served as the Senior Technical Director of the National Security Operations Center (NSOC) at the National Security Agency (NSA), Fort Meade, Maryland. Among his contributions there were the computer science theory and technology for a series of significant large-scale projects stemming from his original graph theoretic approach to knowledge representation and reasoning systems. Dr. Smart began his technical career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) where in 1996 he founded the Information Operations, Warfare, and Assurance Center (IOWA), serving as both its first Director and Chief Scientist. This work subsequently led to the creation the “BAG” system that was heavily leveraged at NSA and in DARPA’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program.
His current independent research interests include the theory, design, and implementation of an innovative, dynamic knowledge processing architecture for high analytic yield, secure computing, privacy assurance, and real-time distributed mission management and decision support, all at global scale. His specialties include advanced analytics, high-assurance cyber security, graph-theoretic knowledge representation, and high-performance computation. Dr. Smart completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University in 1980, earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with special emphasis in computer science and logic. He completed his M.S. in computer science in 1986 and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1994, both at the University of California – Davis through the Department of Applied Science.