Rob Smith is a data scientist and analyst with Washington State University’s Office of Institutional Research. Rob’s work lies at the broad intersection of higher education and high-dimensional statistics. Trained as a quantitative ecologist, he previously was a research fellow with US Forest Service’s Air Resource Management Program in Washington, DC, and a researcher with the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis program in the Pacific Northwest. He has taught courses in the Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology at Oregon State University after earning his PhD there with a focus on detection and prediction of climate signals using bioindicators. For a decade he worked in construction, mills, landscaping, and mountaineering.
Robert J Smith, PhD
Data Scientist
Office of Institutional Research
Washington State University
Pullman, WA 99164-1043 USA