Dr. Steven M. Smith is a Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Texas A&M University, having been on the faculty there since 1980. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1974, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1979. Professor Smith’s research is in the general area of Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience, and focuses on the study of memory, metacognition, and creative cognition. He is best known for his memory research on context-dependent memory, and his creative cognition research on mental fixation, incubation, and insight. Dr. Smith has done theoretical research on basic cognitive mechanisms, and applied interdisciplinary research in engineering design, human computer interaction, and eyewitness memory. His research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Science Foundation in the United States. In addition to serving on the International Scientific Advisory Board for Re-Imagining Engineering Design: Growing Radical Cyber-Physical-Socio Phenotypes, Dr. Smith sits on the Advisory Board for a 3-year research project entitled Learning Preferences and Domain Differences in Design Fixation, funded by the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning. Dr. Smith is joined by teams of scientists from over a dozen universities and several corporations in an application for a National Science Foundation Research Institute, Advancing the Neurocognitive Foundations of AI through Human Centered Creative AI. Dr. Smith is currently editing a book, Emergence of Insight, to be published by Cambridge Press. He has given invited research talks and keynote addresses at international conferences and universities around the world, including Canada, China, Colombia, England, France, Ireland, Japan, and The Netherlands.
(Provided by Steve Smith 21 July 2022)