Matt Smith

matt at smithworx dot com
Resume/CV

Presentations

• AI Trends (Google). February 26, 2026.
• Connected (PDF). Baltimore, Maryland. April 25, 2017.
• Creating Value Through Team Development (Google). Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. November 2, 2016.
• Technology Entrepreneur (Google, PDF). Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah. March 11, 2015.
• Multilingual WordPress (Google, PDF, SlideShare). WordCamp Toronto 2014. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Nov. 15, 2014
• Share Goodness (PDF, PPT). Little Philmont: Traverse Mountain Stake. Heber Valley, Utah. Sep. 6, 2014
• Anyone Can Code (Google) with Fernando Ribeiro. Digiforge: Salt Lake City, Utah. March 13, 2014
• How to bring your technology idea to life (PDF, Google). OpenWest: Orem, Utah. May 2, 2013. [BYU-I Online Learning. Feb 19, 2014].
• Connections and Creativity (PDF). BYU ACM: Provo, Utah. November 30, 2012.
• A Computational Framework for Social Capital in Online Communities (PDF, Keynote). BYU Department of Computer Science: Provo, Utah. April 20, 2011.
• Leveraging Social Capital to Access Resources (PDF). BYU: Provo, Utah. March 19, 2011.
• The Web Startup Group Story (PDF) given at Social Venture SG: Provo, Utah. January, 2011.
• Social Resources (PDF) BYU Department of Computer Science: Provo, Utah. September, 2010.
• Bonding vs. Bridging SC: A Case Study in Twitter (PDF) SocialCom: Minneapolis, Minnesota. August 21, 2010.
• Social Capital in Networks (PDF) BYU Department of Computer Science: Provo, UT. April 19, 2010.
• Power of Public Data (PDF) Data Mining Lab: Provo, Utah. April 8, 2010.
• Early Stages of Social Capital: A Twitter Case Study (PDF) Spring Research Conference: Provo, Utah. March 2010.
• Social Capital in Online Communities: PhD Proposal (PDF) BYU, Provo, Utah. July 27, 2009.
• Social Capital in Online Communities: Research Overview (PDF) BYU, Provo, Utah. July 23, 2009.
• Social Capital in Online Communities (PDF) PIKM: Napa Valley, California. November, 2008.
• Social Capital in the Blogosphere (PDF) Social Information Processing: Stanford, California. March, 2008.
• Building Community around a Blog (PDF) Spring Research Conference: Provo, Utah. March, 2008.
• New research from the BYU Computer Science Department (HTML) BYU Department of Computer Science: Provo, Utah. 2007.
• Implicit Affinity Networks (PDF) WITS: Montreal, Canada. December 8, 2007.
• IAN: Implicit Affinity Networks (PDF) BYU Department of Computer Science: Provo, Utah. December 22, 2006.
• Genealogical Affinity Networks (PDF) Family History Technology Workshop: Provo, Utah. March 9, 2006.
• Stages of Knowledge Discovery in Websites (PDF) given July, 2005.
• Web Mining for Implicit User Affinities in Online Communities (PDF) 2005.

Publications

• Smith, M. (2011). A Computational Framework for Social Capital in Online Communities (PDF) June 2011.
• Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., Stephens, S. (2011). Measuring and Reasoning about Social Capital. Submitted.
• Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., Dewey, D., Ring, S., Gore, D. (2011). Social Capital and Language Acquisition during Study Abroad. In proceedings of 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Prier, K. Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., Hanson, C. (2011). Identifying Health-Related Topics on Twitter: An Exploration of Tobacco-Related Tweets as a Test Topic. International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP11), March.
• Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2010). Bonding vs. Bridging Social Capital: A Case Study in Twitter. International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking (SIN-10). The Second IEEE International Conference On Social Computing (SocialCom-10), Minneapolis (USA), Aug. 20-22, 2010.
• Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C., and Purser, N. (2009). Implicit Affinity Networks and Social Capital. Information Technology and Management, 10(2-3):123-134, September.
• Smith, M. (2008). Social Capital in Online Communities. In PIKM 2008: Proceeding of the 2nd PhD workshop on Information and knowledge management, pages 17-24, New York, NY, USA. ACM. (Alternate Download Location)
• Lee, J., Huang, Y., and Smith, M. (2008) Dependency Mining on the 2005-06 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data. Washington D.C, United States, November 2008. American Medical Information Association (AMIA).
• Smith, M., Purser, N. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2008). Social Capital in the Blogosphere: A Case Study. In Papers from the AAAI Spring Symposium on Social Information Processing, K. Lerman et al. (Eds.), Technical Report SS-08-06, AAAI Press, 93-97.
• Giraud-Carrier, C. and Smith, M. (2008). Web Mining: Stages of Knowledge Discovery in e-Commerce Sites. In Wang, J. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Data Warehousing and Mining, 2nd Edition, 1830-1834.
• Smith, M., Giraud-Carrier, C. and Judkins, B. (2007). Implicit Affinity Networks. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, 1-6.
• Smith, M. (2007). Implicit Affinity Networks. Brigham Young University.
• Smith, M., Wenerstrom, B., Giraud-Carrier, C., Lawyer, S. and Liu, W. (2007). Personalizing e-Commerce with Data Mining. In E-Service Intelligence: Methodologies, Technologies and Applications, Lu, J., Ruan, D. and Zhang, G. (Eds.), Studies in Computation Intelligenge Series, Vol. 37, Springer, Chapter 12.
• Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2006). Genealogical Affinity Networks. 6th Annual Workshop on Technology for Family History and Genealogical Research.
• Smith, M. and Giraud-Carrier, C. (2005). Stages of Knowledge Discovery in Websites. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on E-Service Intelligence at the Eighth Joint Conference on Information Sciences.
• Deccio, C., Cox, S., Smith, M., Wan, J., Clement, M., and Snell, Q. (2003). Survivability of Large Networks in the Presence of Malicious Attacks. Technical Report. Networked Computing Lab at Brigham Young University.

Research Interests

• Affinities and Social Networks: Social Capital in Online Communities, Implicit Affinity Networks (IAN), Link Mining, Clustering, Word-of-mouth, Influence
• Personalization: Recommendation Systems and Collaborative Filtering
• Social Analytics: Social Media Measurement and Analysis
• Business Intelligence: Web Analytics and Statistical Methods
• API Development: API including MCP Design and Development
• Agentic Commerce: Autonomous shopping agents that personalize product discovery, negotiate on behalf of users, and optimize purchasing decisions through AI-driven intent modeling

Projects

• Kalood
• LDSMissions
• Scrapmaker
• SiteSays
• SocFit
• StyFit

Archives

• Post (mini-blog)
• Blog (old)
• Wiki page
• Data Structures and Algorithms (CS235) - Taught Spring 2008

Tools & Experiments

• Email to Image
• Text Mining Code (v2)(v1) php
• Stemming
• Site localization indicators
• IP Country Lookupphp
• Link Extractorphp
• Text Analysis Toolphp
• Social Capital Simulation (2008)
  js
• Rating Widget (2008)
  php js css
• Chore List Generator (2015)
  php
• Gift Giving List Generator (2010–2015)
  python php
• Sequence Diagram Tool (2015)
  php js
• Tank Battle Game (AI prompted, 2025)
  js

Organizations

• Pattern, VP of Engineering [PTRN]
• Lingotek, CTO
• Kalood, CTO / Founder
• Data Mining Lab, Researcher
• LaunchUp, Trustee
• Web Startup Group, Founder
• Ignite Entrepreneurship Academy, Board Member
• Computer Science Department, PhD Graduate
• Brigham Young University, Adjunct Faculty
• Brigham Young University Idaho, Instructor