Leonard A. Smith

Leonard A. Smith is a professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech and a fellow of the London Mathematical Laboratory. He was a Senior Research Fellow in mathematics at Pembroke College within the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2020. As a professor of statistics at the London School of Economics, he served as director of the Centre for the Analysis of Time Series from 2001 to 2020. Smith's research focuses on nonlinear dynamical systems, particularly embracing structural model error, the application of imperfect models to real-world decision-making, and the feasibility of apophatic science. He earned his Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University.