Brian H Smith is a Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He joined the ASU faculty in 2005 after having served 15 years on the faculty in Biological Sciences at The Ohio State University. He helped develop the new Interdisciplinary Graduate Degree Program in Neuroscience at ASU and is currently the Director. In addition, he is the Chair of the University Promotion & Tenure Committee at ASU, and this year he began a new position as Faculty Leader for Organismal, Integrative and Systems Biology within SoLS. He teaches Human Physiology and Neuroscience, and he regularly offers Neuroscience and Science Writing journal clubs for graduate students. He has over 80 peer-reviewed publications from research that has been funded by NIH, NSF and DARPA. His research interests are in sensory processing, learning and memory. In particular, interdisciplinary efforts, particularly with mathematicians in computational modeling of neural processing, figure prominently in this research program.