Matthew Schmidt Ph.D.

Bio

Dr. Matt Schmidt is the principal investigator for the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) at North Carolina State University, where he oversees academic and industry research. He has been at LAS since 2014 providing technical and programmatic leadership for multiple interdisciplinary, collaborative research and development efforts on structured analytic tradecraft, analytic tool integration, and improved user experiences for analysts. Schmidt served director of programs for LAS, where he helped manage and direct the technical portfolio of academic and industry engagements on projects at LAS. Prior to joining LAS, Schmidt spent four years at MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a technical staff member in the Computing and Analytics Group. There he led and participated in a number of applied research projects on the theoretical bounds of anomaly detection in graphs, geospatial event detection in text-based media, and analytic development environments for open-source data. In 2011, Schmidt received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University for his research on developing and scaling algorithms for enumerating common graph motifs in biological networks.